Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Zoland Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of short stories, most of them set in Indiana, focuses on the meddling of fact and fiction and includes a dozen satiric - but also sympathetic - tales written in the persona of Indiana's famous son, Dan Quayle. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 130 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Ed., 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, light blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering, light soil, spine darkened. Clean, sound copy. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL PRINTING - NOT A REPRINT.
Softcover. Boston, MA, David R. Godine, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Moderate soil to page block. Chipping and rubbing to wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DUBUS on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in green cloth with dark blue design and lettering, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Light soiling to endpapers, covers. Blue top edge. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, New World Publishing Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cloth cover boards, blue title on spine and designs on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped. Original bookstore price tag on dust jacket front flap, some agewear to dust jacket (see image).
London, Methuen/Walker, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by David Scott. Light edgewear to covers. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. When villagers call Cassia and her brother, Foxfire, "the serpent's children," they mean it as an insult. But to Cassia it is an honor, for legend says that once a serpent sets her mind on something, she never gives up. And in a time when famine, drought, and violence mark her family's life, Cassia has nothing less than survival to fight for. Their father is a revolutionary, determined to free China from invaders. Foxfire, certain he'll find a mountain of gold, flees to a faraway land. Cassia will need all of her strength and wisdom to keep her family together, and to prove that she is truly the serpent's child. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new.
Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY RANKIN on title page. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #412.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover wrinkled. Cover by Paul Burns.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 217 pages. Hardcover. Brown tweed cloth with brown & black printed titles to spine. Navy top edge. Toning to edges. Original dust jacket, bright with light toning & edgewear. Very clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 236 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front fly leaf missing. Illustrated by Harry H. Lees. Dust jacket shows light wear.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Pretty soft green covers stamped center front with an unnoticeable flower design. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is sunned at both ends. A wonderful story of seven brothers who each use their special magic powers to win the hand of Helena of Boozan Island for their King. Beautifully and elegantly illustrated.
Hardcover. New York , A.L. Burt, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages, b&w frontispiece. Decorated tan cloth covers. Clean. A Girls' Mystery Detective Series book, The girls of Sunnyside prove to the haughty Geraldine that living in a small town is not so boring as she thought. Geraldine is made a member of the Seven Sleuths' Club, and the girls join the boys of the secret C.D.C. in winter sports and fun.
Hardcover. NY, Severn House , 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Vikki Corbett, a junior reporter for a provincial newspaper, joins forces with Dr. Jeffrey Flint, an irreverent archaeologist lecturer with an interest in alternative lifestyles, to investigate the disappearance of one of Flint's students.Clean, like new.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Red cloth covers with black decoration. Book shows light wear overall, spine faded, black spot on top edge. Scarce.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 278 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, First Edition, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with white titles to front & spine. Purple top edge. Dust jacket with age toning, some soiling, price clipped, now protected with a plastic cover. Toning to endpapers & edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY., Norton, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 399 pages. SIGNED BY BAXTER on title page. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy. When assistant city manager Wyatt Palmer enters into a shady business deal he faces consequences that have a profound impact on him and those around him, including brother Cyril, lover Alyse, and mother Jeanne.
Hardcover. New York, W W Norton , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 399 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.