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Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic/Little Brown, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Co. Crime Club, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in black cloth with red stamping. Poor dust jacket with chunks gone from front panel and spine. A group of jewel collectors and dealers gather in the Adirondacks to bid on the mysterious Blue Rajah diamond. Naturally, a murder ensues.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 224 pages, b&w illustrations by Harold Berson. A charming and absorbing story for young readers set in rural Kansas in 1913 about a family of children, their grandmother, and a nest of orphaned newly-hatched bluejays. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise bight and clean.

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st UK, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in poor dust jacket with pieces missing. 180 pages, b&w drawings. 12 authentic tales from Ireland. Book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. In 1942, Ruth and Simeon must leave their missionary parents to escape the perils of war, and Ruth learns much about human nature and life as she and her brother make the dangerous trip through China to India. Clean copy.

NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Color, black & white illust. Previous owner's signature front fly-leaf. Tri-color decoration on front cover. Light soil to back cover.

NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardccover, red cloth binding, with stamped titles and decoration to upper board and spine, and pastedown illustration in corner of upper board. Color frontis. and 8 b&w plates by Peter Newell. Eight tales of a man and his relationship with various animals. Hinges cracked, binding solid. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 328 pages. Story of the struggles of a young woman from a poor, small-town family. 328 pages. Winner of the Hemingway Award for best first novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. Unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover with the flaps glued to cover. Won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a best first novel in 1988

Hardcover. London/NY, Hogarth, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Gilt edges. SIGNED BY FABER on a tipped-in prelim page. Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. His mission will challenge everything - his faith, his endurance and the love that can hold two people together, even when they are worlds apart. Signed by Author sticker on front of dj, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUNNING on title page. Cliff Janeway, a book dealer, agrees to collect a woman who has skipped bail in Seattle. But when he arrives, he realizes he's been employed to find a rare edition of "The Raven". He also learns that those who are known to have owned copies of the book have met untimely deaths. The second book in the Cliff Janeway series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with Nobel Prize sticker on front, 992 pages. The Nobel Prize-winners richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway soon finds that several titles are missing, replaced by cheap reprints -- while other hugely expensive pieces remain. Why would a thief take one priceless book and leave an equally valuable volume on the shelf? Suspecting foul play, Janeway follows the trail of Candice's shadowy past to California's Golden Gate and Santa Anita racetracks, where he signs on as a racehorse hot walker. Eavesdropping on the chatter among the hands, he doesn't like what he hears. And when he goes to the house where Candice died to look for answers, Janeway finds much more than he bargained for.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth with dark blue lettering, decoration in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 366 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name on front fly leaf in pencil, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($6.95) dust jacket. Design & illustrations by Beth & Joe Krush. Early reprint with "LMNO" on copyright page. Small small sticker on inside flap, otherwise a clean, bright copy. When the story opens the little family has taken up residence in a charming miniature village designed by kind Mr. Pott, a one-legged former Railway worker. The fourth book in the series.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($12.95) dust jacket. Design & illustrations by Beth & Joe Krush. Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people sets up house in an old rectory. Eventually, the Clock family of borrowers find a safe and comfortable home, with their relations living near by. All appears well until they realize that the wicked Platters are still looking for them, something which prompts them to get revenge.Fifth and final book in the series. Clean copy.

New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 60 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles, dust jacket illustrated in color, gorgeous full-page color illustrations by Mair. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, A.L. Burt, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial tan boards with 3-color decoration. In a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear. All 12 titles of this series are listed in the rear of the book. (This being #9). The blank rear fly leaf has a bottom corner torn away ( 1" X 1/2"). Otherwise bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hurst and Co., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in the original white pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar, Pictorial cloth covers decorated in red, brown and black. 312 pages. B&w frontispiece, 3 b&w illustrations by Charles Wrenn. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 310 pages. B&w illustrations by Norman Price.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial rust-colored cloth. 1st edition. 265 pages. B&w illustrations by George Foster Barnes. Previous owner's name in ink on front end-paper, else very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with pale lettering to spine and front cover, with color portrait of Lawrence. No dustwrapper. First printing with no other printings indicated. 293 pages with eight illustrations including frontispiece photo-portrait of Lawrence. A reworking of the material Thomas had published earlier in With Lawrence in Arabia in 1924, adapted for a semi-juvenile audience, during the height of Lawrence's fame. Small notation on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated first American edition. "A riveting and thrilling tale of corruption, debauchery, and homicide against a backdground of sexual ambiguity." (Literary Review)

Hardcover. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st UK, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Green cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Second published work from the literary icon. The story of Jack Burns and his fight with modern society (a theme Abbey would revisit). The character of Jack Burns would turn up in later Abbey novels; Monkey Wrench Gang, Good News and Hayduke Lives! Basis for the film starring Kirk Douglas titled "Lonely are the Brave". The UK first edition had a much smaller print run than its US counterpart and has striking artwork (by Stein) of the cowboy on his rearing horse as a menacing truck aproaches.