Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards with a red cloth spine, 60 pages. Preface by the translator, Gerold Lauck. Illustrated by Peter Lauck. Story of a heroic priest who survives Nazi arrest and later helps liberate Paris. Name, mild residue on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 306 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy. Young Merlin, triumphant after his first encounter with the dreaded Rhita Gawr, has brought new hope to Fincayra, the enchanted isle that lies between earth and sky. Yet when a renewed tide of evil arises, its first victim is Merlin's own mother. To save her, Merlin and the forest girl Rhia must follow the perilous path of Seven Songs of Wizardry that has claimed even the lives of great wizards. Most difficult of all, Merlin must discover the secret of seeing not with his eyes, but with his heart.The eagerly anticipated second book in The Lost Years of Merlin epic combines all the passion, power, and spiritual depth that are T.A. Barron's hallmarks.

Hardcover. Canada, Bond Street Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 378 pages. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is a brilliant and highly readable biography of a literary figure of world-wide reputation. Conrad's impact has been so profound and far-reaching that, eighty years after his death, he remains an essential cultural reference point. Such phrases as "heart of darkness" and "The horror! The horror!" have entered the language, often cited without an awareness of their original contexts. His popular legacy extends to Latin American fiction, to the spy novel, to the terrorist and anarchist character, and to film. The writers he has influenced range from T. S. Eliot to William Faulkner to V. S. Naipaul and John Le Carre. For a writer of "difficult" fiction he has enjoyed a remarkably wide impact, yet as Marlow proclaims in Lord Jim of the figure whose story he tells,"he was one of us," and so Conrad remains in fascinating ways.

Hardcover. NY, Seabury, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 154 pages. Black & white illustrations by Anne Dalton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by William I. Neuman. Novel set in 1922 in post-revolutionary Mexico, described as "a blending of roman noir with magic realism, a cross between Raymond Chandler and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCARRY on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Two of Ozick's most widely admired pieces, "The Shawl" (a story) and "Rosa" (a novella) were published together in this book for the first time. Very powerful writing from the author of Trust and Levitation.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, putty color cloth with spine stamped in black and blue. 1st printing with no additional printings on copyright page. Light tanning to endpapers, mild shelf wear, clean copy. Bowles first novel.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 335 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 326 pages. Bound in original dark red cloth with lettering in black.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards with a young Shirley Temple on cover. 250 pages with several b&w photos from the movie. Paper tanning. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno will take all of Bruno's resolve and quick thinking to untangle a mystery that will reach its deadly denouement at the chateau of an aging rock star. But in true Bruno fashion, at least lunchtime is never in danger. It's summer in the Dordogne and the heirs of a modest sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited. Their father's estate has been sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. But the farmer dies before he can move in. Was it a natural death? Or was there foul play? Chief of Police Bruno Courreges is soon on the case, embarking on an investigation that will lead him to several shadowy insurance companies owned by a Russian oligarch with a Cypriot passport. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, illustrated in color by Robinson. Cover design by Phoebe Erickson, includes five stories-The Shy Little Horse, The Rabbits' Revenge, The Polite Little Polar Bear, The Mischievous Monkey, and The Good Little Bad Little Pig. Three stories by Brown. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine and double blind stamped ruling around border of front and back.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition, 1st printing, of this famed Hannibal Lecter & Clarice Starling thriller, later made into the movie starring Jodi Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering. The acclaimed crime writer's last book (he died in 1930), a collection of courtroom stories featuring Colonel Braxton, "great lawyer, great detective, and gallant gentleman ", and set in Virginia in the 1850's. Both Howard Haycraft and Ellery Queen considered Post second only to Poe as an American writer of detective fiction. Clean, square copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth boards decorated in darker green and gilt on cover and gilt on spine, top edges gilt, 105 pages. Forty-five children's tales from the prolific Boston author. Light residue to inside rear cover otherwise bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 279 pages. James Facos evokes the tension, the triumph and the tragedy of an American bomber crew in England during the height of the war over Germany in 1944. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. It's 1855. As the Cardiff-bound trai puffs out of Paddington Station, young Hugh Kellow wraps a protective arm around his large valise. He has been entrusted with a priceless silver coffee pot, designed in the shape of a locomotive, by his elderly silversmith employer. But two of Hugh's fellow passengers are taking an enormous interest in the young man and his precious cargo. When a dead body is discovered in a room at the Cardiff Railway Hotel, beside an empty valise, the great railway detective Detective Robert Colbeck and his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming are called in to investigate; and face awhole host of unexpected problems. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. A German story retold by Erich Kastner and translated by Richard & Clara Winston. Illustrated in color and b&w throughout by Horst Lemke. Story of a little town called Schilda and the people who lived there- who did everything wrong. They built a three cornered town hall, burned down a house to catch a mouse, etc. They are the SIMPLETONS!! No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth, 57 pages with b&w illustrations by Irving Boker. A boy and his canoe in the Canadian North Woods. 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.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers stamped in red, 148 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by the Haders. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Hodder and Stoughton, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt decoration, 129 pages, 12 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac. Included are Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard and Beauty & the Beast. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. The author's first novel, set in the Big Pines area of the Canada/Minnesota borderlands. Publisher's Weekly called this "A provocative, potent debut" and went on to say that "Johnson evokes a community of disenfranchised Indians, the Ojibway and Chippewa, as its members slowly leave their cultural enclave over 30 years from the 1950s to the 1980s. . . . Each chapter is in fact like a powerful short story that could stand on its own. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY AUTHOR laid in. Clean copy. "The extraordinary tale of Edward Moon, stage conjuror and detective, his silent associate the Somnambulist, a mysterious and shadowy figure, The Sleeper, shrouded in inscrutable mystery and veiled behind half-truths and hinted-at destiny, and a devilish plot to bring the British Empire crashing down." (from the inside flap of the front cover).

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 281 pages. South African mystery featuring Afrikaner Tromp Kramer and Bantu Sergeant Zondi, set in a small town in northern Zululand in 1962. This book is a prequel to the other Kramer and Zondi mysteries - the story of how they first met each other.

Softcover. NY, Charter Books, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages. With a new introduction by the author. Presents the story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. Written in Henry's own words, this funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. First published in 1953. Price blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a very worn dust jacket, 154 pages, b&w drawings by Wendy Watson. Ex-lib with stamping, residue t5o rear endpapers.

Softcover. NY, Random House/Vintage Contemporaries, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1st printing of the first American trade edition SIGNED by Ford on the title page with a black pen. No inscription. A trade paper original with glossy card covers. March Date: 1986. First edition is stated on the copyright page. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell and husband Ben live in Chitterton Fells, where he runs a restaurant and she keeps house, tends their three-year-old twins, and occasionally investigates local murders. While attending a club meeting, Ellie discovers the fallen body of her new chairwoman, immediately suspects murder, and begins some insistent interrogating. The ninth Ellie Haskell mystery.

Hardcover. London, Duckworth Overlook, 1st UK, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 290 pages. A novel based in Stalinist Russia around an historical episode involving the poet, Osip Mandelstam.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 235 pages, top edge gilt. A novel from English author Henry Williamson in which he uses the concept of the stars - a regular feature in his work - to explore the nature of good and evil, with the author describing it as a celestial fantasy. With full plate and vignette wood engravings from Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allison and Busby, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1857. Only when the bonfire finally dies down, the charred remains of his body are found. Who would possibly want to murder a man so universally liked? It's the question Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Lemming ask when they arrive in Exeter at the request of the South Devon Railway. Yet, as they investigate the stationmaster's life, they realize he is not as popular as they first believed. With a scorned jilted lover, a resentful colleague and a violent elder brother among the many suspects, the detectives must use all their skill and wit to solve the case. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 119 pages, illustrated in B&W by Judith Gwyn Brown. Dust jacket spine faded with a large chunk out of top, otherwise very good.

New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Top corner creased on page 11. Dust jacket shows light edgewear at cover and spine corners. Otherwise very good. A year after her father, a poet who identified with fauns and satyrs, has been found dead in a motel swimming pool, a strange faun-boy appears to Melissa, seeming to be the reincarnation of her beloved father's spirit. Clean copy.

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, circa 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a chunk gone from top of spine, 365 pages. First published in 1911 this reprint is from mid-40s with Wartime notation on title page. Set on Prince Edward Island, Sara Stanley has the ability to delight and thrill listeners with her tales, many interwoven in this story. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 232 pages, b&w drawings by Reginald Marsh. Library binding, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. black cloth with color illustration on cover label. 347 pages. 10 color plates by Peter Hurd, including the illustrated title page. Front hinge cracked, bookplate on half-title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 340 pages illustrated throughout in b&w by Pyle. A quality reprint of this classic tale first published in 1907. Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Arnold Lobel. An I CAN READ Mystery. When Mama Cluck loses Arthur, her baby chick, the owl detective fights a fox, harasses a pack rat, and finally finds the best clue, a colored Easter Egg. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black, no dust jacket. Second mystery "The Curious Case of Callista" begins on page 133, b&w illustrations by Genevieve Foster. Front cover has fading/discoloration to green cloth, inside clean.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. After eight years in professional exile, thirty-year-old Cooper Barrow returns to the orchestral world, bringing his untested talents to a German on the verge of unification. He is to study with master teacher Karlheinz Ziegler, a conductor haunted by his days at a Nazi concentration camp, his prewar brilliance long since recast as cruelty. When Peter falls for the beautiful and seductive Petra Vogel and his lessons with Ziegler take one jarring turn after another, and as the mysteries of the past inevitably catch up with the present, Barrow must wrestle with shame and redemption in a country marked for all time. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CLARK on the title page. Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after a tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from his wife. Short on cash and looking for work, he lands in the middle of nowhere with a job at SUBstitution, the world's saddest sandwich shop. Kevin's determined to set his life right again, but the troubles keep coming, including a visit from a mysterious stranger who wanders into the shop armed with a threatening "invitation" to join a multimillion-dollar scam. Before long, Kevin will need every bit of his legal savvy just to stay out of prison. Clean copy.

Softcover. Champaign IL, Dalkey Archive Press, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 201 pages. Slovenian novel. In an unnamed city shrouded in mist, Valent Kosmina is a retiree living quietly yet discontentedly with his doped-up, TV-addicted wife. To escape the claustrophobia of home and city, he masquerades as a man of means and takes to spending his nights strolling through an opulent suburb - but when news comes of a gruesome murder on his new turf, Kosmina fears that he may be a suspect. Increasingly anxious and paranoid, Kosmina begins to see a mysterious dark-haired girl following him everywhere - and as this succubus takes hold of him, Kosmina finds his familiar city becoming indistinguishable from the landscape of his own nightmares. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Gardner, Darton and Co., 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a light blue pictorial binding. 379 pages with 68 b&w illustrations by Gordon Browne. Top edge gilt. 20 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Front hinge cracked, creasing to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy. The story of two brothers; a young boy's fantasy life, rich with humor and creativity amidst a world of annoying adults and their societal expectations.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2nd Ed., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Bright copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. A stand alone novel from the author best known for his Maigret detective series.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with only light edge wear to covers. Autographed copy sticker on front dj. Marcus Clay and Dimitri Karras return from the acclaimed thriller, King Suckerman, as they square off against drug lords and racists on the crime-ridden streets of the nation's capital in the midst of the 1980s.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 114 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Paul Galdone. In the days of King Arthur there stood a mighty oak tree within the walls of a castle. Peace reigned in the castle until the fearsome night when Lionel, longlost brother of Lord Weldon, returned to cause trouble and unhappiness. It was then that Shan, the son of Lord Weldon, took on the duties of a knight and hid the sword in the hollow of the giant oak. The days that followed were filled with adventures that tried the courage of the young boy. Shan was surprised by bearded robbers in the woods. He met noble knights in plumed helmets, and eventually he even made a trip to high-towered Camelot. His story is filled with the pageantry and color of England in King Arthur's time. It creates a vivid picture of the Knights of the Round Table and the wisdom of King Arthur himself.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages, in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. A novel by the African American poet and essayist set in the American South.