Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st , 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, colorful dust jacket with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at last get to read THE LAST STAND, together with a second never-before-published work, this one from early in Spillane's career: the feverish crime novella A BULLET FOR SATISFACTION. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light wear on 3/4 cloth binding covers.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 152 pages. Black and white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Events, including the massacre of his father, force young Eduardo to roam the countryside on the Gaviota. He survives for two months in the midst Spanish Civil War. Unlike his Nationalist relatives, he learns to understand many sides of the conflict. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DAVIDSON on the title page. Goldy Bear's fiance, Detective Tom Schultz, discovers the Reverend Theodore Olson lying in a pool of bloodright before Tom and Goldy's wedding ceremony was about to begin, but when police arrive to investigate Olson's murder Schultz is nowhere to be found. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Chiaki learns of the death of her and her mother's former landlady, Mrs. Yanagi, she feels compelled to go to the funeral, although she hasn't seen Mrs. Yanagi in years. As she prepares for the trip, she also begins a journey through memory, beginning right after her father's death, when her mother took an apartment at Poplar House. Chiaki, six at the time, is overwhelmed by the recent changes, falls ill, and cannot attend school. Mrs. Yanagi ends up looking after her during the daytime. The landlady initially frightens her new charge, but as Chiaki spends more time with her, the two begin to form an odd alliance. One day Mrs. Yanagi tells Chiaki that she has been charged with a divine mission to carry letters to the dead when she goes to the grave herself. Inspired, Chiaki then begins a tentative one-way correspondence with her father, diligently entrusting her letters to the landlady. And it's through remembering this time of her life that the grown Chiaki is able to confront her confusion about who she is now
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Four stories about the lives of four young people in different circumstances whose lives are changed by their encounters with books. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A distinguished writer assumes a pseudonym which leads to unforeseen intrigue with Ulster and the IRA.
Softcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, reprints, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover books, like new condition. The first volume INSCRIBED BY VOINOVICH on the half-title page and dated September 27, 1996. Clean copies. Published in NUP's European Classics series.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with cover illustration paste-down, 435 pages. Numerous illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, including 12 color plates. Clean copy. Gilt spine lettering faded.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1953, Hardcover, rose color cloth stamped in gray and purple, 179 pages. A beautifully written, sensitively told story of a white boy brought up by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. One of Richter's best known works, basis for the eponymous 1958 Walt Disney film. Clean, bright copy minus the dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade Books, 2nd pr, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 180 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Here are the extraordinary lives of Abraham and Mary, from their disparate childhoods and tumultuous courtship, through the agony of the Civil War, to the loss of three of their children, and finally their own tragic deaths. Readers can find Mary's recipe for Abraham's 'favorite cake' and bake it themselves; hear what Abraham looked like as a toddler; see a photo of the Lincoln's dog; discover that the Lincoln children kept goats at the White House; see the Emancipation Proclamation written in Lincoln's own hand. Perfect for reluctant readers as well as history lovers, The Lincolns provides a living breathing portrait of a man, a woman, and a country. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzman, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and INSCRIBED on half-title. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, A.L. Burt, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine. 145 pages, b&w photos from the movie. Inscription on the half-title page otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in red, 226 pages A collection of 12 stories from different countries, illustrated by Harold Cue from drawings by Jenny Nystrom. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, 194 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with b&w line plates by Swain. Binding a bit worn. An attractive later printing of the popular English novelist's 1874 bestseller. Previous owner's name on blank pelim page.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st , 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY RUTH SAWYER on half-title page. Hardbound, 108 pages. Illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum in color and b&w. Previous owner's signature and stamp front fly leaf. Illustrated endpapers. Tan cloth cover, no dust jacket. Pink top edge.
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.