Softcover. Oakland CA, PM Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. Sticking It to the Man tracks the ways in which the changing politics and culture of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s were reflected in pulp and popular fiction in the United States, the UK, and Australia. Featuring more than three hundred full-color covers, the book includes in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, articles, and reviews from more than two dozen popular culture critics and scholars. Among the works explored, celebrated, and analyzed are books by street-level hustlers turned best-selling black writers Iceberg Slim, Nathan Heard, and Donald Goines; crime heavyweights Chester Himes, Ernest Tidyman, and Brian Garfield; Yippies Anita Hoffman and Ed Sanders; best-selling authors such as Alice Walker, Patricia Nell Warren, and Rita Mae Brown; and a myriad of lesser-known novelists ripe for rediscovery.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third novel in Israel's mystery series featuring private detective B.F. Cage, this time investigating French professional basketball, drugs and the Paris underworld.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third novel in Israel's mystery series featuring private detective B.F. Cage, this time investigating French professional basketball, drugs and the Paris underworld.

Hardcover. London, UK, Secker & Warbug, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, uncipped dust jacket, 584 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR in front endpapers. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's/Minotaur Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY TAYLOR on title page. Art history professor Sweeney St. George is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum's collection seems to be missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns that a student intern at the museum was the last person to check out the piece, a young woman who died of an apparent suicide soon after she handled the piece, more than twenty-five years ago. Going on with the exhibition without the intricately beaded Egyptian collar, Sweeney can't let it drop altogether. Nor can she forget the student, Karen Philips, who died just a few months after working with the piece. A little digging shows that Karen was working at the museum the night it was robbed, that same year, and Sweeney becomes even more curious. But her interest in mysteries past pales when a present-day murder brings Sweeney and her colleagues at the museum under the Cambridge Police Department spotlight in the person of Detective Tim Quinn, whom Sweeney has worked with before. In the fourth installment in this rich and fascinating series, Sweeney and Tim go after a killer, trying to resolve questions both immediate and decades-old before it's too late.

Hardcover. Sydney, Austalia, P.I.C., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Clean, tight copy. This children's picture story, a detective mystery, is about a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, and which disappears in New Jersey. This is one of the author's most hilarious, but overlooked, masterpieces for any child or adult to enjoy. The life-like illustrations are by international illustrator, Robert Ingpen. The literature classic was originally published in 1882 as a short story.

Hardcover. London, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1st UK, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Scarce in hardcover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 106 pages, illustrations by Donald A. Mackay throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and minor tear on top edge. Clean and bright pages and tight binding. Story of a young boy who feels out of place in his own family. Gus Oliver lives with his several siblings and parents in rural upstate New York. He is nicknamed "the stone face boy." Gus is a strange and awkward boy but likable. When a stray dog is befriended by his sister, he doesn't take an immediate like to him. When the dog goes missing one night, it appears only Gus can find him before the dog is hunted or trapped in the cold winter night.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 225 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bronson. Color illustrated endpapers. Review copy stamp on half-title page. Corners bumped, rubbed. Soiling to covers. A tale of two adolescent Native American boys on islands off the coast of Spanish-conquered Mexico. 47 illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 120 pages. Illustrated by Jean Harper;

Softcover. New Haven CT, S. Babcock, reprint, 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, 4 1/2 X 5 1/2", illustrated with b&w engravings. Forward by author dated 1845, noting that this book is a shorter version of a "somewhat larger book" printed several years earlier (1832). Wrapper worn with red design and lettering: "Stories About Whale Catching/Toils and Perils of Whalers". Yellow endpapers. Half of paper on spine missing, light foxing and minor staining to several pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company/Riverside Press, Reprint, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 532 pages. "Authors Edition". Black & white illustrations by M. L. Stone and V. Pedersen. Previous owners inscription on Preliminary page. Small piece of paper (pea sized) missing from bottom right corner of front endpaper. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Hardcover with pictorial front cover. Illustrated by Edna Cooke. Previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Tight copy. Spine faded.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 247 pages. Color, black & white illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Rubbing to spine, corners. Dust jacket with light soiling, chipping.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 651 pages. Clean, tight copy. Few writers of the past quarter-century have so consistently surprised, startled, and delighted their readers as has the masterful Richard Bausch, whom the Washington Post Book World calls "a virtuoso of language and literary grace." His nine critically acclaimed novels have established him as one of the most important fiction writers of his generation, a visionary stylist with an acute eye for the minute detail that illuminates the deepest wells of human experience. Yet it is for his award-winning short fiction that Bausch is perhaps most admired.The Stories of Richard Bausch celebrates the work of a great American artist, a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Brown cloth cover boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Light soil and darkening to pages. Gutter crack in middle. Moderate rubbing and wear.

Hardcover. New York, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small publication date slip laid-in. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Nice, bright copy, end papers illustrated in 2-colors.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson's Books for Young People, 1st, unkn., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by C. Gifford Ambler. Dust jacket shows minor wear, covers good. Internally, previous owner's name on front fly leaf. tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings by James Fuller and photographs by the author. Dust jacket with some wear, light chipping. Soil mark on bottom page block. Light page darkening.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with a blue title block on the spine strip. Illustrations: Blue and white seascape scene on each endpaper; b/w frontispiece; a b/w illustration at the head of each of the 17 chapters. Dust jacket is edgeworn. chipped. Adventure novel for young people and adults of Labrador life, an intelligent Indian dog, and the great outdoors.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 71 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jim McMullan, his first book. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, large tears, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. New York, J. H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Front hinge intact but tender. Full color and black & white illustrations by Milo Winter and Charlotte Becker. Light foxing to front cover color paste down illustration. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint , 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Top edge gilt. Embossed cover with gilt decorations. Light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine and front panel. Decorated front panel. Gilted top text block. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by noted illustrator A.B. Frost. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Heavy bumping to all board corners, all edges slightly frayed. Mild fading and age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, with eight illustrations and a pictorial spine and front cover. Minor edge wear and rub, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original beige color binding with the front board that features a large illustration by Oliver Herford of two young people upon a large black horse with the title above in bright gilt. 198 pages. Edges stained green. 25 black & white illustrations by Herford. Slavery, pre and Civil War saga of Georgia plantation life and loyalty of one Aaron. a foreman of slaves, himself a Black man. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint , 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Oliver Herford. First published a year earlier. Beautiful, clean copy. all edges green, decorated cover with gilt lettering.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color frontispiece by W.J. Aylward/ b&w Illustrations by Pyle. Internally tight & clean. Mild water stain on back cover. Brandywine Edition.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 114 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Lattimore. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Review stamp front fly leaf. Edgewear, corners a bit bumped, rubbed. Spine bumped, faded. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, blue paper-covered boards. Light wear to book and dust jacket. SIGNED BY TREVOR on blank page proceeding the half-title page.

Hardcover. NY, VIKING, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. London, FABER AND FABER, uncorrected proof, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, rep, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Pictorial cover. Light wear to covers. Previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Illustrated with 10 color plates by Peter Hurd (1st edition by this illustrator) Tight copy. Light rubbing to lettering on spine.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 334 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges and preliminary pages.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 258 pages. Black and white Illustrations by Pyle. Tissue over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear to covers. Back hinge partially cracked. Previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Illustration in white of children along a bannister on front cover. Copyright 1899, with no previous printings listed. Light foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light green cloth with dark green lettering on cover, 79 pages, b&w frontis. Seven stories set in New England and told, in part, in dialect. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean. It's the last swimming season for Walker, Nortie, Lion, and Jeff, and their coach is building their self-discipline in a grueling four-hour-a-day test of stamina designed to bring them to the outer edge of their capabilities. As it turns out, Stotan Week is also the week in which secrets are revealed, and the four friends must draw upon their new strengths for an endurance they never knew they'd need.

NY , Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY BELL on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. Attractive copy of the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park. Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whose humor and identification with the absurd are mitigated only by his love for his family, friends, and, ultimately, knowledge itself. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Villard Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Covici, Friede, 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with title in silver on spine, minor rubbing to edges. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy of this scarce title. There's a distinct lack of glamour to this first Maigret mystery. In itself that's interesting as this is a story centered on an international con-man and an American investor in one of the finest hotels in Paris.

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Decorated endpapers. Former library book with residual labels, seals and markings. Covers bound in navy blue, some age wear: fraying to top and bottom of spine, corners of covers, yellowing to pages and edges, spine broken at front and back endpapers, but still intact. In very good condition for its age.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, library edition (NOT ex-lib). B&w illustrations by William Sauts Bock. Tales of the Fox sisters and horses that wore charms. This collection of true tales of spiritualism in America is a rare read. The stories are as entertaining as Sleepy Hollo, the only difference is that many of these strange tales are thought to be true. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, unmarked, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 72 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black & white illustrations by Julio de Diego. Edgewear. Dust jacket with fade to spine, small chunk missing from top of spine. Clear plastic protective cover.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #914. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock. Notation on first page.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Book Club Ed., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.158 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jamie Wyeth. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st Proof, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Uncorrected proof. 198 pages. Spiral bound. Light edge wear to paper wrappers; front cover lightly faded and soiled. Else a clean, tight copy.