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Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sequel to The Chocolate War. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel for older children featuring a family of six children, living on Poseidon, one of the islands of Atlantis. Dust jacket art by Enrico Arno.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unusual work in that Gallico wrote this not as a sequel to his book THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE but rather as a sequel to the film version. The film featured some plot and character changes which Gallico incorporates into this novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Continues the adventures of fifteen-year-old Maura, her younger brother Patrick, a young stowaway, and some unusual characters as they sail from England to the New World in 1851.

Softcover. Clearwater FL, Jiffy Blueprint Co., 1st, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages, pale blue wrappers with black tape spine. Minor soil to covers. Clean internally.

Softcover. Mt. Vernon NY, Italian American Writers Association, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERICONI on the title page. Limited to 1000 copies. A bibliography of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by and about Italian Americans. Mild tanning to wraps, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, First Edition, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with embossed art nouveau design, light green ink & gilt titles. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Light foxing to a couple interior pages, and last illustration. Otherwise light toning to edges, clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. New York , Delacorte Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 184 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. A novel of "wartime love and death" in the London of 1917. In the heroine Julia Ashton, Doolittle creates a vibrantly sensitive character through the evocation of her feelings, moods and memories. Previous bookseller's price sticker on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild /Doubleday, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a light stain to rear panel. Decorated endpapers, B/W Illustrations by the author, 215 pages. A tale about a young English farm girl and her love for her pet donkey, Biddy Christmas, and a little gray pony, Pip. Pencil name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #899. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile. Spine cocked lightly.

Hardcover. New York, The Dial Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, dust jacket illustration in color, b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Previous owner's inscription, dust jacket price-clipped otherwise clean, very good. The story of a farm family's Saint Bernard.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st thus, 1953 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, Illustrated in color and b&w by Schucker. This is the storybook version of The Black Stallion, aimed a younger readers. First thus with 1953 copyright date and 1.00 on inside front cover, No dust jacket issued. Sound but fragile copy, mild soil to covers, name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Pages age darkened. Cover edges show minor rubbing in spots. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in black and red. James' story of a boy and a horse, born on the same day, who together grow "Big-Enough for most anything" --a delightful tale for readers of all ages. "A" on copyright page. Cloth is soiled and worn, frayed at edges. Owner's name on front fly leaf. some waviness to pages in rear. Binding tight.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When their two-million-dollar Japanese smuggling assignment hits a snag, professional gunrunners Altmeyer and his wife, Rachel, risk nuclear disaster to complete their task. 248 pages, clean copy.

Softcover. Paducah, KY, Collector Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers and light wear to edges of spine.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages. Clean copy. The second novel in the L.A. Quartet from this master of noir that began with The Black Dahlia, followed by this second novel, then L.A. Confidential, and finally White Jazz. The Red Scare is in full bloom in the Los Angeles of 1950 in this dark tale of three men caught up in a massive web of ambition and deceit.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers with a lightly worn dust jacket with some chipping. 207 pages, b&w drawings by Hubert Buel.Story of journey from Mexico to what is now San Francisco in 1775 to claim land for Spain. For 10 to 14-year-olds. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury , 1st US, 2002-07-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 278 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Kentucky, Purple House Press, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers, otherwise clean and tight copy. 25th Year Anniversary edition.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red covers stamped with black lettering and line art of plane with map of Norway behind it. Color frontis by Howard Leigh and 6 b&w plates by Alfred Sindall. 1941 date on copyright page, no other printings noted, top edge stained red. Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot and writer of adventure stories, who wrote under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns. He is best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles. In this exciting Biggles adventure, we see the much-loved adventurer stranded in Oslo during the Nazi occupation. Biggles is advised to find out all he can about the enemy's intentions, all while assuming the identity of a member of the Gestapo. Covers show wear, light soil. Small ink name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Riggs Publishing, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 321 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B/W illustrations by Peter Newell. Moderate wear on cover boards, pages tanned. Otherwise clean.