Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in an unclipped ($4.95) but partially faded dust jacket. 164 page, b&w drawings by Mercer Mayer. The Great Brain faces the challenge of life at a strict Catholic boarding school with daring exploits and money-making schemes. Stated first printing.

Hardcover. Ny, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. "Collection of stories including scientific romances, contes philosophiques and stories of the supernatural. The most important of the latter is the novella Dromenon, in which an antiquarian discovers the true nature of medieval Christian worship by means of a restored church organ". Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Return to the thrilling days of yesteryear when the most exciting people having the most exciting adventures came to us in our own homes through radio. Little Orphan Annie, Superman and others paraded through our ears and our homes in that wonderful time when our imaginations were ignited by fictional characters. Harmon provides reminiscences of the heyday of radio programming, with insights on such radio dramas as I Love a Mystery, Gangbusters, The Shadow, Inner Sanctum, Batman and Robin, Superman, Tom Mix, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, Adventures by Morse and a couple of dozen more. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Avon, 1st pbk, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #46, digest size with pictorial wraps. 124 pages. Hardboiled detective novel by Black Mask author about a guy released from prison for a crime he didn't commit & determined to go out after the big shot criminals who prey on the little guys. Mild creasing, soil to covers.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 189 pages. Roy DIllon seems too handsome and well-mannered to be a professional con man. Lilly Dillon looks too young--and loves Roy a little too intensely--to be taken for his mother. Moira Langtry is getting too old to keep on living off the kindness of male strangers. And Carol Roberg seems too innocent to be acquainted with suffering. This was filmed in 1990 by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Donald E. Westlake and starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack and Annette Bening. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line from 1 to 10; SIGNED BY RUSHDIE on the half-title page with no inscription. DJ in metallic silver printed in blue lettering.

Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-349, 123, 133 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf, light soil to top edge, otherwise excellent condition.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Richard B. Farrell. Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city's bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt's help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It's just like the old days--only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving end. Like new.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Andre Levy, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, bound in gray cloth with gold titles and imagery; dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, chunk gone from top of dust jacket. Translation by Bernard Frechtman. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1948 is a leap year and a good one for Harry S. Truman. The second-hand book dealers on Manhattan's Fourth Avenue are in full swing. Howard inherits his father's shabby bookshop, but Howard isn't a true bookman, and he knows how little money there is in the business--until a seemingly priceless manuscript falls into his lap. But there's something odd about it. Howard decides to check out his treasure with an acerbic fellow in Baltimore, a man Howard's late father believed could solve all literary problems: H. L. Mencken. The results are deadly. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with red and black lettering and illustrations on front cover and spine. Six b&w plates by B. West Clinedinst. Title page dated 1901, copyright page dated 1899. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Toronto, Ontario, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket ($22.95 flap price). True first edition, Canadian. A dystopian novel set in a future totalitarian America run by religious fundamentalists, where fertile women are enslaved as breeders to the country's leaders, brought her international acclaim and financial success, winning the Governor General's Award, the Los Angeles Times Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Commonwealth Literary Prize, and being shortlisted for the Booker Prize (UK) and the Ritz-Paris-Hemingway Prize (Paris). The work was made into a film in 1990, an acclaimed opera by the Royal Danish Opera Society in 2000, and recently was adapted for television. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in putty-color cloth stamped in dark blue. Dust jacket fair with edgewear and a big chunk gone fron bottom of spine. Stated First.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth cover with black stamping, 343 pages. No date on title page and no statement of first printing. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Satirical writing by author. Unlike Al Capp's all cartoon books, this one is a work of prose with occasional comic illustrations, some nearly full page in size. Dust jacket with light shelf wear, unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First published in 1940, The Disappearing Floor is the 19th book in the Hardy Boys series. This appears to be a 1950s reprint. Once again Frank and Joe Hardy take on a puzzling case when their famous detective father asks the boys to assist him in tracking down a notorious jewel thief and his accomplices. The trail leads to the outskirts of the Hardys' home town and to a weirdly guarded mansion on the old Perth estate. With their pal Chet Morton, the brothers must tackle the mystery of the mansion heir's sudden death. Clean copy, paper tanning.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. First published in 1928, The Missing Chums is the fourth book in the Hardy Boys series. This appears to be a 1950s reprint. Follow Frank and Joe Hardy as they grapple with the unexplained disappearance of their closest friends, Chet and Biff, during a motorboat trip. The stakes are high, as Baldy Turk's gang think they've kidnapped Frank and Joe and, in a letter received by the Hardy Boys' Aunt Gertrude, are demanding ransom for their return. An investigation leads them to the mysterious Blacksnake Island, where they, too, are captured by the gang of criminals. Not only is the local bank robbed, but two of the Hardy boys' pals mysteriously disappear after a masquerade party. Are the events related? How the Hardy boys use all their courage and skill to outwit the criminals provides an exciting climax to one of the most baffling mysteries the young detectives have ever encountered. Clean copy, paper tanning.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead and Co. , 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. First Edition of the author's second book. 8vo. 290 pages. Pale green endpapers have pencilled numbers, front hinge starting. Shelf-worn copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a very worn and chipped dust jacket, 294 pages. In these four short novels set in America, England and Paris, Rebecca West explores the lives and relationships of rich women and men who are ruled by 'the harsh voice we hear when money talks, or hate'. There is Josie, a flower of American girlhood with boundless ambition for wealth. There is Etienne de Sefavenac, a dilettante French aristocrat whose courtly stratagems are intended to ensnare Nancy Sarle - a plain American businesswoman. There is Alice Pemberton, a sensible Englishwoman - the very salt of the earth - in her own estimation. And lastly there is Sam Hartley, an American businessman who has fought his way to riches with his wife at his side, but whose life is now haunted by visions of beautiful young women.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light blue cloth with dark blue lettering, in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, 323 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 115 pages illustrated in b&w line by Enrico Arno. This entertaining collection of twenty-one folk tales from the Ashanti people of Ghana in West Africa takes its title from the wild 'dance' the spider Anansi performed when he tried to hide some burning hot beans under his hat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 283 pages. The story of a faith healer (who before that was a rock star manager and a beautician) told in the rich language and texture of a Southerner who can draw you continuously into the world she weaves. Her first novel after a 20-year hiatus.

NY, Sun Dial Press, reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 249 pages. Illustrated endpapers, 8 glossy, full-page color illustrations as well as b&w drawings by Marguerite Kirmse. No dust jacket. Small bump to top corner of cover. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 385 pages. SIGNED (MORE LIKE INITIALED) with a big J on the title page. Clean bright copy with a gold signed sticker on dj cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original dark blue cloth with large color illustrated paper label on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 8 color plates and pictorial endpapers by F.C. Yohn. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE AND FRONTIS by Thomas and Yohn. Scarce thus. Three small chips to cover label, name on inside blank page, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 255 pages. In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster. Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has, perhaps, already destroyed everything else. But for how long? Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 134 pages, b&w art by Matt Phelan. Newbery Medal sticker on front cover.

Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-241, 174, 136 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on Hired Target. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 190 pages. Frontis illustration loose but present. Illustration and gold embossed title on cover. Some discoloration to spine, otherwise good. Black & white Illustrations by J.O.B.

Hardcover. Taschen, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Huge oversized hardcover, 16x11", 596 pages. The full, fascinating story of this fabled company, written and designed by EC-expert Grant Geissman. Even the most die-hard EC Fan-Addicts will find something new within these pages, with the Gaines family archives providing over 100 rarities that have never seen print. Cover images are reproduced from Gaines file copies. 1,000 illustrations include the rarest and most notorious covers, interior pages and panels, rare photos, vintage original artwork, and some of the most celebrated stories ever to be printed in four colors. Author Grant Geissman was a customer in Bud Plant's San Jose comic book store in 1968-69, long before he became a recording star and EC expert. Grant has written several books on EC and, in my mind, is the foremost authority on both Mad and EC. He generously did a special bookplate for us, which reproduces a "fantasy" cover for Incredible Science Fiction that he commissioned from Angelo Torres. It's in full color and signed by Grant.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering, 454 pages. "This novel forecasts the advent of the world state. It includes Wells's most thorough indictment of the phenomenon of fascism." A strange disturbing book, published on the eve of WWII. It is in part an analysis of fascism and in part a utopian novel. The book is a biography of a character Rudolf 'Rud' Whitlow, who is born with such an aggressive temperament that he is referred to by his nurse as the 'Holy Terror' and the infant become the despair of his parents. Rud eventually gets involved in socialist activism and a group plotting world revolution.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Nice copy of this fairly scarce novel, by the writer Nemerov, far more well known for his poetry. This, this third novel, was the basis for the hit Broadway play, "Tall Story", and for the movie of the same name. The movie had Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda as co-stars. Dust jacket faded, chipped at top, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 43 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Garrett Price. Blue dust jacket scuffed at corners and top and bottom spine. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard, and illustrations (plates) throughout. Brown cover boards (light agewear) with black design on front cover board and spine. No dust jacket. Some tanning and smudges to pages and edges from age. In very good condition. Original owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company , BC Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a matching dust jacket. The story of San, the foal, who became a colt, then a racehorse but finally made it back home to his family. 128 pages. Set in Vermont. B&w drawings by Albert Micale. Weekly Reader Book Club. Clean copy.

New York, World Publishing, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Novel about a magnificent white stallion.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY IRVING at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference in red ink on the half-title page. A whimsical family saga of a hotel and a bear and an opera house. Irving's fifth published novel and the basis for a 1984 film adaptation by director Tony Richardson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Wonderful fantasy about a boy in love with magic who gets to meet the greatest magician of them all. B&w illustrations by Selznick.

Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild/Doubleday Doran , BC Ed., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with blue design and lettering. Two-color frontis, b&w drawings by Erick Berry. This story, written for young adults, is about three children who have lost their parents, living in the Tennessee mountains and trying to keep life and limb together. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light soil. Stated second printing, same month as the first. Set in New Orleans, this is the third book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, Berger's 15th novel, a comic masterpiece. First printing, with "1" present on number line. Light green boards with dark green cloth spine. An eerie and clever novel, The Houseguest introduces one of Berger's most dangerous and compelling villains. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Smath. A dog who likes to roll, scratch, and play with bones is quite a different dog after attending Madame de Poochio's School for Dogs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this sweeping, timely thriller, a Palestinian American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black, 175 pages illustrated in b&w by Elizabeth Black Carmer. A collection of American folk tales. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 101 pages. Oversized, no dust jacket issued. B&W and color Illustrations by Sawyers and Reusswig.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell has had her ups and downs with housekeeper Mrs. Malloy, but she misses her when the corpulent, caustic cleaning lady starts moonlighting in a private detective's office--nosing into his homicide files as she dusts them. The ninth Ellie Haskell mystery.

Hardcover. NY, The New Press, 1st US, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 252 pages. While almost all of Duras's novels have been translated into English, her debut The Impudent Ones (Les Impudents) has been a glaring exception--until now. Fans of Duras will be thrilled to discover the germ of her bold, vital prose and signature blend of memoir and fiction in this intense and mournful story of the Taneran family, which introduces Duras's classic themes of familial conflict, illicit romance, and scandal in the sleepy suburbs and southwest provinces of France. Clean copy.

London, J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 638 pages. Whimsical illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Gilt title and design on a faded spine. Cover otherwise very good, with minor edgewear to top and bottom spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. There is some light scribbling on cover of book (hidden by the dust jacket) and rear bottom of dj. Otherwise clean.