Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. Title page clipped otherwise clean, bright copy. Nice dj art by Ted Lewin. Drawn to the Kansas hospital where her father cares for wounded World War One veterans, Annie meets Andrew, a disfigured young soldier. As Annie helps Andrew slowly adjust to his wounds, she also faces devastating truths about war and the complex world of adulthood. A girl on the brink of womanhood comes to terms with the brutal aftereffects of war in an absorbing novel.
Hardcover. New York , Golden Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large format glossy boards, 61 pages, illustrated in color by Peter Barrett. Shooter provides a swift look at the evolutionary cycles from the earliest life in ancient seas, through the rise and fall of dinosaurs, the development of the continents, the rise of mammals and the emergence of man. He sometimes resorts to dramatic language and oversimplification in compressing millions of years into a mere 60 pages. The information presented is brief, but the pictures by Peter Barrett add to the enjoyment for children
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. 233 pages. Set in New England at the outskirts of a small town. Terrorists seeking the return of their homeland hijack a school bus. Story told from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, the Army General involved in the rescue and his son, recruited as a go-between. Author also of youth classics 'The Chocolate War' and 'I am the Cheese'. Remainder stamp to bottom edge. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Phil Broker is reunited with his estranged Delta Force superace wife, Nina , in Langdon, North Dakota, where borderland security is ineffective in stopping a smuggling operation across the easily penetratable Canadian border. Into the story, Nina is taken hostage by a sociopath with a plan to wreak havoc upon a large portion of the U. S. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Spanning from the end of the nineteenth century, when the colonizers carved up Africa, on through the tumultuous decades of revolt and suppression that followed, 'Afterlives' is an astonishingly moving portrait of survivors refusing to sacrifice their humanity to the violent forces that assail them." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Quinn Fawcett is the name used by Bill Fawcett and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Their first novel, featuring Sherlock Holmes's older brother Mycroft. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, The Sunday School Union, circa 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 150 pages, with illustrations. Decorated cover and spine. Slight corner and edge wear, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, and minor foxing throughout. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Chicago, Follett Pub. Co., 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages. A story of championship golf competition for young adults. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 412 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slight edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Mystery around the Lippizzaner horses of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Story of a boy in Bali. Black & white drawings by George Kraynak. INSCRIBED BY FALK on front fly leaf. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.
Hardcover. New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 36 pages illustrated in color by Pablo Ramirez. Color illustrated boards in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with closed tear, light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket lightly scratched. Color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co/Special Ed for Scott Foresman, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Judith Roth. Charming children's story of a boy named Henry and his large Irish Setter named Alfred. Complete with a 33 1/3 rpm record in rear pocket. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Eleven stories of suspense illustrated by Arthur Shilstone, 208 pages. Collected are the following: The Day the Children Vanished by Hugh Pentecost, Through a Dead Man's Eye by Cornell Woolrich, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim by Agatha Christie, Green Ice by Stuart Palmer, The Grave Grass Quivers by MacKinlay Kantor, The Case of the Irate Witness by Erle Stanley Gardner, Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse by August Derleth, The Headmaster by Michael Gilbert, The Adventureof the Seven Black Cats by Ellery Queen, The Wicked Cousin by Leslie Charteris, The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover. Clear, transparent, decorated dust jacket, has some scratches to front cover. Decorated cover boards. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Beautiful condition, pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st illustrated thus., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Blue dust jacket shows very little wear.
Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 117 pages, b&w illustrations by Tony Sarg, Stories of David and his friends having fun during the summer in a small town, Book has mild shelfwear.
Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, gray cloth covers with black lettering. Review slip laid in. Mark from paper clip no longer present. Otherwise clean, very good.