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Hardcover. London, Julia MacRae Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1995, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 355 pages. Unclipped dust jacket wit slight rubbing, sticker residue. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. The lives of two very different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 238 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With the sticker on cover stating" "Selected By The New Yorker As one of the best American fiction writers under 40". A collection of stories about young Native Americans introduces a surprising cast of characters who live and love in two worlds, balancing their Indian heritage and traditions against the realities of the modern world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allen Lane, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989. Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political sabotage'. He was arrested in 1989, but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden and New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower. Two lines underlined in Preface, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thirty years after leaving Eunola, Mississippi, to pursue her dreams of becoming a dancer, Leland Standard returns with her son, and a dinner party given in her honor brings to light the secrets, desires, and life stories of the guests. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound, 309 pages. 8 color illustrations by Henry Pitz. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Brodart cover. Meigs' first book for young people, this won the Beacon Hill Bookshelf Prize Competition and was the first original work in that series.

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 edgewear and chipping, 302 pages plus publisher's ads. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart and Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in red and black. No dust jacket. The author's second novel ("The Haploids" was the first), a science fiction about an unseen race living among us, the Capellans, that for millions of years have harvested a crop of their own planting - the thought forces released by humans at death. Now that source is threatened by the advance of science. 244 pages. A tight copy, usual tanning to the pages. Small worm hole to top edge, margin, not affecting text. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 86 pages, b&w drawings by Donna Diamond. 'Golden Kite Award Silver Medal' on front panel of dust jacket. A boy & a girl become convinced that the white deer they discover is a unicorn. Tale of a beautiful white hear & the friendship it nurtures. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Originally published in paperback by Signet Books, December 1961. Deputy sheriff Tom Lord knows by now that far-west Texas is the place he'll always call home. He's spent too much time in the region's small towns to adapt to another place. And that's all right with him. What's not all right is being a deputy sheriff, where if it weren't for family misfortune, he might have been a doctor instead. Lord's got one ace-in-the-hole -- the land deed that makes him the biggest landowner in the county, just as the oil companies have started to move in. When Tom's approached by Aaron McBride of Highlands Oil and Gas with a contract to set up pipelines on his property, he's more than happy to sign on the dotted line with barely more than a cursory glance at the paperwork -- it just might be Lord's way out of a life he never wanted in the first place. But when Lord finds out just what that contract entailed, things start to go sour for Aaron McBride -- and fast. Because in this Texas town, Lord's the law -- and there's nothing more dangerous than a cop with nothing left to lose. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. A Jewish folk tale set in the Sinai. Mild shelf wear.

NY, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 143 pages. Yellow cloth, blue design/lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket shows very minor edgewear. Spine of dust jacket is slightly toned. B/W illustrations throughout by Marvin Besunder. Previous owners' names in ink on a blank page at back otherwise clean. " Lin Li-ti, parted from his family during the tumultuous evacuation from mainland Communist Chino to the Nationalist island of Formosa, found himself hungry and alone in a land where no one seemed to care about a lost boy." Written by a woman who lived in Taiwan, as well as other places in the world, who is a teacher and author.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with red and dark blue lettering on the spine and cover, 302 pages. A moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River was an unbroken sea of trees. Beneath them the forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight. Here, in the first novel of Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy, the Lucketts, a wild, woods-faring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their isolation. This novel gives an excellent feel for America's lost woods culture, which was created when most of the eastern midwest was a vast hardwood forest---virtually a jungle. The Trees conveys settler life, including conflicts with Native Americans, illness, hunting, family dynamics, and marriage. INSCRIBED BY RICHTER on the front fly leaf. A bright, sharp copy missing the dust jacket. Related ephemera laid in.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence. Unavailable for 40 years, THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY is an eloquent, terrifying, heartbreaking exploration of madness by one of the most acclaimed authors of the past century. This definitive edition for the first time pairs the original novel with a never-before-collected companion novella by Joyce Carol Oates, unseen since its sole publication in a literary journal nearly half a century ago, which examines the impact of Gotteson's killing spree on a woman who survived it, as seen through the eyes of the troubled young man hired by a private detective to surveil her. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence. Unavailable for 40 years, THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY is an eloquent, terrifying, heartbreaking exploration of madness by one of the most acclaimed authors of the past century. This definitive edition for the first time pairs the original novel with a never-before-collected companion novella by Joyce Carol Oates, unseen since its sole publication in a literary journal nearly half a century ago, which examines the impact of Gotteson's killing spree on a woman who survived it, as seen through the eyes of the troubled young man hired by a private detective to surveil her. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell returns for another hilarious mystery that begins when Ellie's long-vanished father reappears in her life, carrying the ashes of his lost love and drawing Ellie into a murderous puzzle. The ninth Ellie Haskell mystery.

Hardcover. Chicago, Childrens Press, revised ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Describes in simple text how the Indians of the sea coast, plains, deserts, swamps, and woodlands lived and how their way of life was influenced by the environment. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mystery League, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green, 286 pages. Shelf-worn copy, spine faded, but otherwise a clean, sound copy. A man carrying diamonds in his pocket that are worth a fortune, is traveling in a train with only five others in the compartment. The train enters a tunnel and after a few seconds of darkness, emerges into the light. The man has a small red hole in his forehead and the diamonds are gone.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 244 pages. B&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Nobody believed Hugsy Goode when he prophesied that a tunnel lay beneath the alley until--generations later--Nicholas (alias Copin) and Timothy (alias Tornid) decide to explore. And lo and behold, right under the vine-covered hole outside the house where Hugsy Goode used to live, they find an entrance to adventures beyond their wildest dreams. A sequel to The Alley. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with minor wear, 94 pages, illustrated in b&w by Symeon Shimin. A young boy's adventures growing up in a Caribbean fishing village.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a black-lettered leaf-green cloth spine over grass-green boards; in a illustrated dust jacket with striking artwork by Leo and Diane Dillon. Historical novel of the XVIII dynasty pharaoh, Akhenaten, told from the perspective of his strong, proud mother, Empress Tiye, who effectively ruled Egypt for years. Gedge's earlier Egyptian novel, CHILD OF THE MORNING was hailed by critics.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1988, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages illustrated in color by Michael Donato. Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s and who miraculously end up on neighboring farms in central Vermont. Clean copy.