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Hardcover. London, Quercus, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, SIGNED by Penney. When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered nineteenth-century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and the harrowing forces of nature.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with cardboard spine split along top. No dust jacket. Corners chipped and fraying. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf bottom.

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Stamped lettering in front cover with illustration of two characters. Gutter crack on page 62. 8 plates of b&w illustrations by F.C. Gruger.

Hardcover. Utah, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Clean inside. From the dust jacket front flap: "In his latest book,..., Cheuse once again presents a vividly rendered gallery of characters traversing a shifting moral landscape, this time the 'new' South and West of the eighties."

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. First printing with no statement of printing or date on the copyright page and letters E-H . decorative boards with tennis rackets, color illustrations by Floethe throughout. Shelf wear, spine lettering faded.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First work of longer fiction (although still a brief one) by this Virginia-born poet and short story writer. A moving story of jazz and an old muscian brought back to the United States as a 'museum project' to capture his creative process and preserve his music. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 86 pages. Teenage Steven and his father, Corey, take to the road with a Bible, an old army tent, and less than the best of intentions.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Lit. Guild, BC Ed., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 166 pages. B&W illustrations by Nicholas Panesis. Dust jacket with chipping, chunks gone from rear panel. Teresita Matinez moves from her small village to Denver and adjusts to a new life.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby. Behold her, Tereza Batista-inspiration to painters, poets, and sculptors (not to mention sailors on shore leave), teacher of the ignorant, lover of the powerful (and powerful lover), healer of the sick, champion of the downtrodden, seasoned veteran-at the peak of her beauty-of life's wars. No wonder the people of Bahia call her, in awe and delight, Tereza of the Thousand Nicknames-all complimentary! Follow Tereza from her birth into direst poverty and bad luck (orphaned before she knew her parents, enslaved at the age of 12) to the great day when she turns the tables on that most splenetic and sadistic of slaveholders, the black-hearted Captain Justo Duarte da Rosa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally , 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 127 pages. Foreword by William Beebe. Illustrated by Keith Ward. Cloth covers with orange lettering and illustration. Light soiling to covers. Edgewear. Corners bumped. Natural history of termites in a story about a fictional termite colony.

New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, light blue cloth stamped in black. 155 pages. Top front cover with slight bend. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Dust jacket fair only with fading, chipping, tears. Brodart cover. The story of an Irish lad and his tin whistle that makes an old cow dance, complete with a Fairy Queen, Celtic humor and a happy ending. No markings.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #813. Cover art by Jerry Powell. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Softcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring themes. In examining the cultural apparatus surrounding it, Grixti argues that such narratives raise important questions about the relationship between fiction and society. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages. Clean, unread copy. Originally published in paperback by Fawcett Gold Medal Books, February 1965. To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the only gift fate's ever given him. He's never held down a steady job, and when it comes to women, his luck might just be the worst of all -- his girlfriend and partner-in-crime Red would double-cross him in a heartbeat if she knew just how short on cash they really were. And if Red ever finds out about the wife Corley neglected to mention, there's a good chance that Corley might not survive the night. At first, Mitch was sure Texas would be the perfect place for him and Red to run their game -- there are players in nearly every back room and side-street across the state and here, the pockets run just a little deeper. But Corley forgot about one thing: Texans don't forgive easily. And there's nothing they hate more than a cheater. Texas by the Tail is a high-spirited, sexy, and ingeniously plotted novel of the grifting life, by a writer who is a virtual encyclopedia of the con, the scam, and the double cross.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 180 pages. Illustrated with 39 grayscale drawings by the author. Ranch life during a severe drought. Stated second printing, $2.50 flap price. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Antonio TX, The Naylor Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A story of a family and their struggle to survive during a harsh drought in Atascosa County, Texas. Several small b&w drawings at chapter headings. Rear fly leaf with residue where envelope was removed. No other library ttraces. name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London / NY, John Lane / Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st Illust. thus, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with bright gilt design on cover and spine. Contains Frontis, endpapers design and eleven additional black and white illustrations by Frank C. Pape. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright yellow dust jacket with light edgewear. Nine fictional characters argue/debate philosophical questions and offer opinions on history and literature. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages, 4 b&w illustrations by C.S. Reinhart, each with a tissue guard. Green cloth with with black design, gilt lettering on spine, edges stained red. This copy INSCRIBED BY HARTE on a blank prelim page and dated the year of publication. Hinges partially cracked, front fly leaf opened roughly (possibly for inscription on following page), binding a little shaken.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Shoemaker & Hoard, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. That Distant Land brings together twenty-three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berrys mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations. This volume combines the stories found in The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch with Me (1994), together with a map and a charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This copy SIGNED on title page, by Timberlake, with the inscription "Keep loving, keep fighting!/Amy Timberlake"). Pearl and brown boards w/silver spine lettering. A young girl unafraid to fight injustice finds herself in a battle against the richest woman in town. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages + advertisements. B/W illustrations/prints by Charlotte Tifffany Parker. Marks/glue from previous bookplates on front and back fly leaves. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Very clean yellow cloth cover with black stamped design on front and title stamped on spine.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 2nd printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, S.G. Phillips, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 94 pages, illustrated with drawings by Moyra Leatham. Clean copy, dj price-clipped.