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Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st trade, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 393 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Slight bump to upper edge of spine, else a lovely copy in protective brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st trade ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white cloth stamped in maroon and gilt on spine and front cover. Fine in a blue cloth slipcase with a color illustration paste-down on front. The author's strongest collection of stories and the last to be published in his lifetime. One of only 250 numbered copies of the publisher's limited first edition SIGNED by the author. This copy is unnumbered. Carver died at the age of only fifty, shortly after this book was published.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. Two-tone illustrations by Richard Bennett. Illustrated green cloth cover with light edgewear, soil.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. McBain's first book to feature Benjamin Smoke, a retired Police Officer now Private Detective.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1ST, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1st US, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 214 pages. Dust jacket worn and slightly foxed with chipping to upper edges of spine and front cover, protected by clear brodart cover. Overall a nice, tight copy.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When sixteen-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, he is sent on an unusual journey of repentance, building wind toys across the land. In his most ambitious novel to date, Newbery winner Paul Fleischman traces Brent's healing pilgrimage from Washington State to California, Florida, and Maine, and describes the many lives set into new motion by the ingenious creations Brent leaves behind. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first novel in the 'Detroit Crime Series' in which the city is treated as an organic entity through various decades of the 20th century, "WHISKEY RIVER" spans from the Prohibition Era to the late 1930s. Constantine ("Connie") Minor is a Detroit-based journalist who has made a name for himself covering the crime beat in the late 1920s/early 1930s. This was a time in which bootleggers and mobsters carved out Detroit into spheres of influence over which they exerted and established firm control over, not only, the illegal importation of alcohol, but also the numbers rackets, and prostitution. Many of the city's cops often looked the other way, picking and choosing what crimes to solve or ignore (courtesy of a bribe). All the while, Detroit's industrial might (as evidenced by the auto industry) continued to grow, giving the city a dazzling prosperity soon to be tempered by the ravages of the 1929 stock market crash and resulting Depression. Clean copy.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with 3-color cowboy design on cover, 421 pages. Notable for the 4 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Hinges cracked, pencil inscription on front fly leaf, spine faded, otherwise good.

Hardcover. NY, Soho, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in the UK in 1969.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, Reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white by author. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Light soil on covers.

Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 194 pages.A fox hunt--a memorial to the late Harold T. Van Fleet--becomes a disturbing and sordid event in which the connection between sexual and artistic dominance is explored.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third Easy Rawlins mystery.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Finding seeds of inspiration in the stories of the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers--characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Arranged by Rachel Field. Color, b&w Illustrations by Elizabeth MacKinstry. Paper covered boards with pink label on cover, w/ some discoloration, corner wear. Middle third of book w/ light crimp to bottom corner.

UK, Goldmark Uppingham, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages plus acknowledgements. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Sinclair brings together an impressively predatory and seedy group of contemporary antiquarian book-dealers and an investigation of the 19th century Jack the Ripper murders. The double plot fuses a hunt for rare books and the Ripper.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. A nice copy of Bulgakov's 1920's novel that became the play 'The Days of the Turbins' in 1926. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Doran, reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. No colophon on (C) page. Spine cocked.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with soil, major chipping, tape repair. 128 pages. Frontispiece illustrated by Lee Haynes. Many illustrations in b/w, a few indicate B. Stevenson as artist, the rest are not specifically identified. Illustrated end papers. Seventeen chapters telling of the growth and experiences of a young American Indian boy.- his adventures are closely interwoven with the habits, customs and beliefs of his people.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Half cloth boards. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Number 77 of no more than 100 copies authorized for distribution by Signed Editions Limited. Dust jacket has light crease on front flap.

New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth cover, leaping stag embossed on front. 94 pages. Black & white illustrations by Seredy. Previous owner's signatures on front end paper. Slight discoloration to edges of pages. Water stain to covers. Faded spine.