Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white cloth with gilt lettering on spine, and author's initials on front cover. #253 out of 300, numbered and SIGNED BY DILLARD and in a printed slipcase. Dillard's first novel, a tale of rough settlement life in northwest Washington state in the 1850s. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 248 pages. The book is made up of 18 chapters that form short-stories in themselves, and each usually explores a different character (usually eccentric) or aspect of the life of a FSO - 4, Political Officer, working in the American Embassy in London. A biting, sarcastic, and satirical series of stories. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Udall's second novel introduces Golden Richards, a builder, with four wives, 28 children and a propensity to create trouble for himself and his family. SIGNED BY UDALL on the title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Fawcett Gold Medal, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 255 pages. A lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes a few shots at him. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain, the intrepid Travis McGee finds himself arrested and charged with murder. And he can't help but ask himself, is this what they call southern hospitality...? Mild wear to covers, otherwise VG, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Co,, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. Boris Artzybasheff dust jacket art with wraparound illustration. Historical novel of missionaries in 19th century Hawaii.Author's first novel. "Beneath the white sunlight of Hawaii brown kings and queens, traders, ship captains, missionaries shape the destiny of one woman - and of an island empire." 1935 on title page but no first edition on copyright page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.
Softcover. US, Picture This Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Volume 1: Drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Volume One focuses on Kley's ink drawings, and reprints for the first time a substantial selection of his illustration work for children's books and adult genre fiction, a side of Kley's career previously unexplored in other collections. This volume also includes a wide sampling of Kley's cartoons and magazine work, with newly collected examples taken directly from a variety of rare sources such as "Jugend," "Simplicissimus," and the historic "Der Orchideengarten" (the world's first fantasy fiction magazine). In all, more than 300 Kley illustrations and cartoons fill this first volume.
Hardcover. NY, Forge Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARTIN on the title page. Rare book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, are back for another treasure hunt through time. These main characters from previous books "Back Bay" and "Harvard Yard", are in search for an early, annotated draft of the Constitution which was stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. Clean copy. Autographed copy sticker on front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. A young man's search for his father, believed lost from a whaling boat in the South Pacific. Set in the late 1800s. Light price marking in front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated card wrappers. What better place to hide a collection of priceless jewels than among the glitter and ostrich feathers of Rio's Carnival parade? The film-director narrator suddenly finds himself the custodian of such a valuable horde after the nocturnal visit of a young dancer who is soon found murdered. First published in 1988, the novel was a bestseller in Fonseca's home country of Brazil, as well as in Italy and Mexico. The English edition I read was published in 1997 in Britain, translated by Clifford Sanders.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue tweed cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 246 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark blue lettering, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 401 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. No markings.
NY, Lincoln MacVeagh. Dial Press, 1st US, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and vignette on front cover, 290 pages. A Story of Northern Ireland before the Revolution. Rich in humor and humanity, it was one of the six novels chosen, out of thousands by Harrap, the English publisher for a cash prize. The green cloth has discoloration, washed out splotches mostly to rear cover and part of spine. The interior is clean, binding tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Maisie Danston, a rich, sexy senior at Dartmouth College, has everything. brains, beauty and a boyfriend. But Teddy Leskovitch becomes obsessed with her, spying on her at every opportunity until his overwhelming desire drives him to kidnap her in a wild, desperate attempt to prove his love. The author's first novel.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In Gallagher's collection of 12 short stories we enter the working class world depicted by Dreiser and Farrell and, more recently, by Bobbie Ann Mason and Russell Banks. Gallagher finds her characters in laundromats and trailer parks, picking them up at a moment of revelation when suddenly the air is cleared by a profound understanding that cannot change anything. In "Bad Company" Mrs. Herbert, bringing flowers to her husband's grave, confides in a young woman she has met in the cemetery. In doing so she realizes how completely she had shut her husband out of her life. In "Girls" Ada is reunited with Esther, once her best friend. But Esther doesn't remember Ada, who comes to realize that her past has drifted away irreparably. These finely crafted stories, authentic in every detail, deal with constricted, confined lives in an unemotional yet compassionate manner. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 282 pages. "Horses, horses, horses! Would you like to belong to a riding club? Would you like to solve mysteries and have exciting adventures? Then come along and join Sunny, Dave, Peggy, Mike and all the other members of the Timber Trail Riders Club. Horse shows, rodeos, and trail rides. these are just a few of the wonderful activities that await boys and girls at Timber Trail Farm." Illustrated by Olindo Giacomini and Arnie Kohn. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, soiled with fading to spine and gilt on cover. 327 pages. Despite grubby exterior, interior is clean, tight binding. Stated First Edition. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Jeff Thomas. A collection of classic Welsh stories. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Translated from German by Breon Mitchell. Beautiful copy. Like new.
Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with tan cloth spine. 40 pages illustrated with 2-color drawings by Francois. A number of remarkable things do happen when the small Pierre steals a bun (from the best of motives) and is chased through the streets of Paris by twenty-seven and a half policemen and other worthy citizens. Because the currants are magic Pierre manages to evade his pursuers by way of the top of the Eiffel Tower and other historic spots. Eventually he lands in the Bastille, which turns, quite logically, into a giant Swiss cheese. The story has all the tense complications of a dream and the same inexplicable reasonableness, plus a deadpan humor seldom found in dreams. Covers worn, small paper scar/chipping under "The "in the title. Name on front fly leaf, binding a little loose, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and red, 50 pages illustrated in 2-colors and b&w by Plato Chan. Adapted from an Old Chinese Legend by Plato and Christina Chan. The Text by Christina Chan. The Illustrations by Plato Chan. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in bright decorated cloth, 243 pages. B&w illustrations by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 309 pages. Library Edition with spine sticker (NOT EX-LIB). Complete number row. Horn Book review, 1983: "The author interweaves black folklore with her own family history in a tale remarkable for its total integration of the novel with the imaginative possibilities of legend." An African god-child and her older brother travel as albatrosses on a slave ship to Georgia, witnessing two centuries of history in two god-days! Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Design, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 304 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Foreword by Fraser Heston. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 science fiction cult classic film the Planet of the Apes, a handsomely designed commemorative volume full of rich, behind-the-scenes detail and exclusive, never-before-seen photographs and illustrations. Based on Pierre Boulle's novel La Planete de Singes, the original Planet of the Apes was one of the most iconic films of the 1960s. Starring Hollywood stalwarts Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, the movie captivated audiences and sparked a franchise that included eight sequels, two television series, and a comic strip. Now, five decades after its theatrical release, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Rinzler tells the thrilling story of this legendary Hollywood classic-a film the book's author thought would be impossible to make. Clean, bright copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Modern Library, reprint, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with light tanning to edges, blue flexible cloth covers with gilt stamping. Blue top edge stain. Introduction by author copyright 1934. Price 95 cents on dust jacket flap. 246 titles on reverse of dust jacket, so NOT the first printing of this edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in textured green boards, white lettering on spine, 190 pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped, with a scar on front panel where a sticker was removed. The book itself is clean and tight. A British diplomat, looking natty in a green hat, walks into the brooding hills above Lake Como - and evaporates. British Intelligence Agent Hambledon's job: find him.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black, 290 pages. Hubin mystery set on the front lines during the First World War. Previous owner's signature otherwise a clean, bright copy.0
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A former intelligence agent now living in Florida, Marion "Doc" Martin, along with his hippie sidekick, Thomlinson, must clear his uncle of kidnapping and murder charges stemming from his discovery of the Fountain of Youth. Often cited as the "best" Doc Ford novel, the third book to feature Ford. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Saturday Review Press/ EP Dutton,, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Parts of a body are found on farms which are leased as hunting lands by a local hunting club. It's not long before Balzic has figured out the identity of the victim, but pinning the murder on the killer is another matter in this second Balzic mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Soho Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A mystery set in Alaska, the author's first novel. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and rule on front. B&w frontis. illustration. A story of personality exchange set during World War I. The same German bullet passes through the brain of one French soldier, killing him, but lodges in the head of another (his close friend), causing only a slight injury but transferring the dead man's personality to that second soldier. This produces great psychological consternation in the wounded man, especially when he returns home and courts the widow of the first soldier. Bookplate on front fly, otherwise clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The critically acclaimed, award-winning lawyer/author's follow-up book to his "Wartime Lies" debut. The story of the last two years of Ben's life, told by his closest friend, Jack, who pieces the facts together from his own memory and from the personal papers that come into his possession as executor of Ben's will. It is the story, most particularly, of Ben's tumultuous love affair with Jack's cousin Veronique, a woman whose dazzling beauty masks darkness and disquiet. Wi th Veronique, Ben discovers "the vast bliss of being loved." But when her husband learns of the affair and a commitment to Veronique is required, Ben discovers his own fragility-and the brutal hold his past has on him." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The critically acclaimed, award-winning lawyer/author's follow-up book to his "Wartime Lies" debut. The story of the last two years of Ben's life, told by his closest friend, Jack, who pieces the facts together from his own memory and from the personal papers that come into his possession as executor of Ben's will. It is the story, most particularly, of Ben's tumultuous love affair with Jack's cousin Veronique, a woman whose dazzling beauty masks darkness and disquiet. Wi th Veronique, Ben discovers "the vast bliss of being loved." But when her husband learns of the affair and a commitment to Veronique is required, Ben discovers his own fragility-and the brutal hold his past has on him." Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants. A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of the day, the one that comes before the liquor shots begin - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script.
Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear. 160 pages, unclipped. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Penguin Classic, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 412 pages. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a devastating satire of Soviet life, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with incident and with historical, imaginary, frightful and wonderful characters. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law--Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law--Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages, b&w illustrations by Brian Floca.
NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are two dolls who have been best friends since they met in Kate Palmer's house at 26 Wetherby Lane. In this sequel to The Doll People, they hitch a ride in Kate's backpack and find themselves in the biggest adventure of their lives, a day at school! But when an attempt to return home lands them in the wrong house, they're in far deeper trouble than they imagined. Along with a host of new doll friends, they also encounter Mean Mimi, the wickedest doll of all. Mean Mimi is mean-really mean-and she's determined to rule all of Dollkind or else destroy it. Will the world ever be safe for dolls again? In this masterfully plotted sequel, Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, with the help of Brian Selznick's ingenious black-and-white illustrations, take the reader on another nonstop adventure from a doll's eye view!
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Doris Lessing's 1974 novel in which a woman watches the world sink into barbarism,'.where people huddle together in tribes for self-defense.'
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Was it any advantage to be loved by a man? This story tells of the loves of Evelyn Cotton, from the 1950s through to the 1970s, and their faults, though the man who chronicles her story loved her more than any of the others put together. The author's first novel.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BARRON on front fly leaf and also SIGNED on the tiele page. Blending Arthurian legend and modern oceanography, this lively tale boasts finely developed characters as well as fast-moving adventure. The author achieves a solid balance of mythology, environmental issues, and scientific research procedures. Clean copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Albion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The fictional story of one man's obsession with the Grateful Dead, and the revelations he experiences while following the band from show to show at the turn of the millennium. INSCRIBED BY BARUTH on half title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Oneiric Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love. Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle -- that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.
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