Hardcover. Philadephia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial red cloth boards with gilt titles to front board. 212 pages; 8 illustrations in color by Maria L. Kirk; 7 stories for children by Louisa de la Rame (Ouida) : "Moufflou," "A Provence Rose," "Lampblack," "The Ambitious Rose Tree," "The Child of Urbing," Meleagris Gallopavo," "Findelkind."
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction--and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is. When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together--but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people...including the President of the United States? Like new.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 180 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages, illustrated in b&w by Lesley Liu. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. Exposing the humor in violence and the seamy side of riches, Canning follows the maneuvers of Sir Anthony Swale, an aristocrat who has spent his privileged life in quest of rare art treasures, many of them from behind the Iron Curtain. Small inials on front pastedown otherwise clean in a bright unclipped dust jscket.
Hardcover. NY, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Enlivened by wit and sarcasm, this fast paced story of international intrigue again features the engagingly irreverent Philis, maverick operative of SR(2), super-secret adjunct of British intelligence." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st US advanced review copy , 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound. Laid-in: review slip.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, dj price clipped , small abrasion to front panel otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY BURKE on title-page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to bright dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Slight creases to pages 239-241. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, reprint, na, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 211 pages. 10 full color illustrations and b&w line drawings. Three-color decoration on front cover. Light edge and shelf wear, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in pale yellow, cover label illustration, 288 pages, b&w illustrations by Charles Copeland who also did the endpapers drawing. Previous owner's signature on blank page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Edward Shenton and Meader. Scarce. Spine age darkened, with fraying at top and bottom. Corners bumped. Soiling to covers. Interior is clean, unmarked. No dust jacket. A good reading copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. U. S. O. stamp inside front and back covers. Remnants of label on back end papers. Black cloth covers with green lettering on front and spine. Some white spots on covers. Clean. Scarce. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife, and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American Indian activists disappear, Robicheaux's dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests, but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse, his ex-partner's girlfriend. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Archaia, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color comics throughout by Fincher/Hyman. Clean, tight copy with minor if any wear to edges.
Hardcover. London, Soul Jazz Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated boards. Black and white pictures throughout. At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm and thought and an ideology of black economic empowerment. John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others developed a new cosmology of sound that was as revolutionary as the social and political changes that took place in America throughout the decade. From the musical explorations of John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman to the collective and community concerns of Chciago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the black science fiction of Sun Ra, the new jazz musicians created a musical and cultural landscape from which jazz never looked back. This large-format deluxe hardback book features hundreds of stunning photographs of the new jazz musicians in the USA throughout the 1960s, presented with an introductory essay and biographies on the many artists included in the book.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 191 pages. Stated First Edition on copyright page. B&w illustrations by author. "Shipwrecked off the coast of medieval Scotland, identical twins Jan and Brus are the only ones left alive when their father and his men are murdered. They survive by tricking the Scots into thinking that only one of them exists. Having sworn to avenge their father's murder, they foil the man's treasonous plot and keep their vow." Awarded 1957 Newbery honor. Author received 1950 Newbery Award for The Door in the Wall. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages. The story is set in Philadelphia in a 1950's winter. The protagonist, Al Hart, wanders the city streets and steals an overcoat from a clothing store. He is running away from New Orleans where he is wanted for the murder of his older brother. The motive of the murder, it appears, is to inherit the large wealth his brother had earned. As the story unfolds, it develops that Hart was well educated and had gifts as an artist. Goodis' words "He had no idea of where he was going and he didn't care" describe Hart's life.Clean 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.
Hardcover. New York, Crime Club/Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages, orange cloth covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, small soil smudge to rear cover. Otherwise, very good.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf, small ink checks on rear dust jacket flap. Otherwise clean.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #6087. Creasing along spine.
London , Collins, reprint , 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 255 pages. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Soiling, edgewear to dust jacket. Being the life story of Ralph Rudd, his early adventures, perils and misfortunes on land and sea, including sundry close encounters with high-jacking, mutiny and violence off the African Slave Coast.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, library binding. Illustrated in b&w by Antony Maitland. An atmospheric and chilling thriller set in 19th century London. Bartholomew Dorking finds himself inexplicably tied to the murdering villain Black Jack, who should have hung from the gallows - but who has now, it seems, come back from the dead!. Leon Garfield was one of the most celebrated children's authors of the twentieth century, and won the Guardian Award, The Whitbread Award, and the Carnegie Medal. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mauve boards with yellow lettering, maroon cloth spine. 321 pages with a (2) on last page indicating second printing. Quite scarce. Top corner of cover bumped.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a clear, straightforward style, Katz describes the settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys (covering Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri) by African Americans seeking freedom, including biographical sketches of men and women who formed churches, started schools, or were politically active in their region. Some of these settlers were fugitive slaves; several set up stations on the Underground Railroad with the aid of the Quakers; others were farmers, poets, and soldiers. In several states, they helped form black regiments in the Civil War. Chronologically arranged, the book introduces many lesser-known personages not found in most collective biographies and places them in a broader context of U.S. history as a whole.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a clear, straightforward style, Katz describes the settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys (covering Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri) by African Americans seeking freedom, including biographical sketches of men and women who formed churches, started schools, or were politically active in their region. Some of these settlers were fugitive slaves; several set up stations on the Underground Railroad with the aid of the Quakers; others were farmers, poets, and soldiers. In several states, they helped form black regiments in the Civil War. Chronologically arranged, the book introduces many lesser-known personages not found in most collective biographies and places them in a broader context of U.S. history as a whole.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages. Anthology of 20 stories gathered from 16th Century chronicles of missionaries. Illustrated by Bierhorst, Jane Byers. Clean copy. Dust jacket price-clipped.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. From the Academy Award-Nominated Screenwriter of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Comes a Breathtaking Story of Murder and Mischief...IT'S THE STORY of a big-game hunter, fisherman, fighter, visitor to Cuba, drunk, and Nobel Prize-winning author, recently deceased of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, whose final unpublished manuscript could fetch a mint... IT'S THE STORY of a short, balding man with a high-pitched voice and a vicious wit, whose cocktail parties are the talk of the town, especially when a beautiful woman dies at one of them. And it's the story of Dick Sherman, intrepid New York publisher, on the trail of the literary find of the century--and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it from being found. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, C.W.F. Scott, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate soil and chipping to dust jacket, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Multiple page corners "dog-eared" folded and creased.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BARR on prelim page.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Wilson C. Dexter. Bright gilt-decorated cover, spine faded, stamping to front paste-down otherwise VG.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 178 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, with publisher's letter laid in. Very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #975. Cover art by James Meese. Light creasing to covers.
Softcover. London, Orion, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. First printing of this debut mystery, set in the Australian outback. Printed simultaneously with the hardcover, SIGNED BY CARVER. Illustrated wraps, like new condition.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Co., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this tenth novel of the Gabe Wager, Denver PD Homicide series, he confronts the gang violence that takes his nephew's life and threatens to ignite the city.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages. SIGNED BY FURST on title-page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. On the LNWR train a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, con-man, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve: a ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover. Clean copy.
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