Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light green cloth with dark green lettering on cover, 79 pages, b&w frontis. Seven stories set in New England and told, in part, in dialect. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean. It's the last swimming season for Walker, Nortie, Lion, and Jeff, and their coach is building their self-discipline in a grueling four-hour-a-day test of stamina designed to bring them to the outer edge of their capabilities. As it turns out, Stotan Week is also the week in which secrets are revealed, and the four friends must draw upon their new strengths for an endurance they never knew they'd need.

NY , Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY BELL on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. Attractive copy of the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park. Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whose humor and identification with the absurd are mitigated only by his love for his family, friends, and, ultimately, knowledge itself. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Villard Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Covici, Friede, 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with title in silver on spine, minor rubbing to edges. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy of this scarce title. There's a distinct lack of glamour to this first Maigret mystery. In itself that's interesting as this is a story centered on an international con-man and an American investor in one of the finest hotels in Paris.

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Decorated endpapers. Former library book with residual labels, seals and markings. Covers bound in navy blue, some age wear: fraying to top and bottom of spine, corners of covers, yellowing to pages and edges, spine broken at front and back endpapers, but still intact. In very good condition for its age.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, library edition (NOT ex-lib). B&w illustrations by William Sauts Bock. Tales of the Fox sisters and horses that wore charms. This collection of true tales of spiritualism in America is a rare read. The stories are as entertaining as Sleepy Hollo, the only difference is that many of these strange tales are thought to be true. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, unmarked, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 72 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black & white illustrations by Julio de Diego. Edgewear. Dust jacket with fade to spine, small chunk missing from top of spine. Clear plastic protective cover.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #914. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock. Notation on first page.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Book Club Ed., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.158 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jamie Wyeth. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st Proof, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Uncorrected proof. 198 pages. Spiral bound. Light edge wear to paper wrappers; front cover lightly faded and soiled. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Berkeley, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the 1954 Goodis classic. A nice copy of this Black Lizard reprint.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd pr., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #852. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing and rubbing to paper wrappers, especially at spine.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, hardcover. Black cloth covers with red decoration. Small library stamp on title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Quartet, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Nicholson's 1st book in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Street Sleeper brings the road novel to England and into the 1980s. Ishmael, a renegede librarian, goes "on the road" in a customized Volkswagon Beetle which he names Enlightenment. He soon finds that the M62 is a poor substitute for Route 66.

Hardcover. New York, Putnam , 1st, May 31, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover, 286 pages. Small stain on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ace Hardcover, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Remainder line bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Marcaulay, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light green cloth, b&w frontispiece.

Hardcover. NY, Trumpet Club, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 179 pages, b&w illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run. And because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself running well enough to join the school track team. Strider changes Leigh on the inside, too, as he finally begins to accept his parents' divorce and gets to know a redheaded girl he's been admiring.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, rep, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1029. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile. Light wrinkle to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Front flap of dust jacket creased, otherwise clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Front flap of dust jacket creased, otherwise clean, like new.

Hardcover. New York , Lippincott /Junior Literary Guild, 1st Ed., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages. Hardcover with dust jaccket. illustrated in B&W by Marguerite de Angeli. Small chip on dust jacket, creases, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st Eng, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 2nd Ed., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Second Edition stated, 10-5 L-U, (November 1945), the classic children's novel, 131 pages. Tan cloth binding with illustration in dark green and white on front cover. Garth Williams drawings. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, The Modern Library, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Three novels in one volume: Young Lonigan (201 pages); The Young Manhood Of Studs Lonigan (412 pages); Judgment Day (465 pages). Farrell wrote these three novels at a time of national despair. During the Great Depression, many of America's most gifted writers and artists aspired to create a single, powerful work of art that would fully expose the evils of capitalism and lead to a political and economic overhaul of the American system. Farrell chose to use his own personal knowledge of Irish-American life on the South Side of Chicago to create a portrait of an average American slowly destroyed by the "spiritual poverty" of his environment. Both Chicago and the Irish-American Roman Catholic Church of that era are described at length, and faulted. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 218 pages. Color frontis. and b&w illustrations by Addison Burbank. Light shelf ear, no markings.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover New in new dust jacket. 326 pages. Quarter bound in cloth over paper covered boards. First edition, second printing. SIGNED on the title page by the author. An exceptional copy of a classic.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 326 pages, "First American Edition" stated; number line complete 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Sequel to "The Golden Compass." DJ not clipped; $20.00 U.S. price showing. Square and appears unread.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 183 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page, minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 97 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light soil to dust jacket. Tight copy. Illustrated with Marshall's b&w humorous cartoon drawings.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Toronto CA, McClelland & Stewart, 1st Canadian, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 312 pages. "An Englishman's home may be his castle, but to Sir Buckstone Abbott, Walsinford Hall was nothing but a blot on the landscape. With its glazed red bricks, its dome and minarets, it so jarred upon his sensitive soul that it was his avowed intention to unload the unsightly pile on the first prospective buyer. His chance came when the Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek expressed the opinion that the Hall was 'cute' and began toying with the idea of purchasing it." Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 4 b&w illustrations by Rachel Robinson. Decorated tan cloth, 324 pages. Spine lettering faded otherwise very good. The adventures of an outcast boy and his adopted dog, a poodle named Diogenes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black. 158 pages, illustrations and text in brown. Dust flap taped to inside front cover. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Detective Dave Robicheaux re-turns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers. "Not since Raymond Chandler has anyone so thoroughly reinvented the crime and mystery genre," said novelist Jim Harrison, and in Sunset Limited Burke continues to carve out new territory.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 349 pages. Rear dj lists to The Young Pitcher. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange boards with orange cloth spine, 166 pages. Inscription on inside front cover. Otherwise clean. Fans young and old will laugh out loud at the irrepressible wit of Peter Hatcher, the hilarious antics of mischievous Fudge, and the unbreakable confidence of know-it-all Sheila Tubman in Judy Blume's five Fudge books.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. These are the stories that catapulted Superman into the spotlight as one of the world's premier heroes of fiction. These volumes feature his earliest adventures in Action Comics when the full extent of his powers was still developing and his foes were often bank robbers and crooked politicians. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavendar cloth stamped in white, 155 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 199 pages. The author's third novel under this pseudonym, one which combines psychological suspense and detection,as it introduces Detective Chief Inspector Tom Maybridge. Interestingly this was published in the UK under the title "Victims" which brings into focus the fact that the three murder victims were all related to a prominent neurosurgeon, while the US title shifts the focus to the man who gradually becomes the object of suspicion and hate.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. British barrister and district coroner Julian Whyte finds his peaceful, uneventful life jeopardized by the return of his older brother, Raymond, an expatriate communist intellectual, and his new German wife, Kristina, in a suspenseful tale of brotherhood, guilt, betrayal, and death. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Bobbs-Merrill Co. , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 132 pages. Tall book. red cloth covers. Black & white illustrations by Evatt. Mild waterstains to covers. Spine faded. Corners a bit bumped. A charming story set on the island of Orleans in the St. Lawrence River near Quebec, against the backdrop of the opening years of World War II.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury Publishing , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 5th pr., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, 343 pages, 2-color endpapers map, b&w illustrations by Helene Carter. Spine cloth faded otherwise a clean, tight copy.