Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Albert D. Blashfield. Rear hinge cracked. Light rubbing to cover corners. Slight cock to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped with red title. A Mexican Adventure about young Tonio and how he helps a hungry wounded stranger & fulfills his own dearest wish. Many b/w illus by Wilfred Bronson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions CLub, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in forest-green cloth, spine stamped in gilt with printed label attached. Introduction by Norman H. Strouse with color and b&w illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Copy #794 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Wells felt that this was his best novel. Very good in a bright yellow slipcase with some darkening to one area.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, 224 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #593. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light Pencil notation on first page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Spine wrinkled.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #995. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Spine lightly cocked.
Hardcover. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Cardboard covers, illustrated endpaper. One-color illustrations by Walton Brashears. Some edgewear and soiling to covers.
Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Foul Play Press, 1st, 1999, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 284 pages. Previous owner's light marking on front fly leaf. "Possibly she even realized, or half-realized, that there was something wrong with her life.... She wondered whether what had happened to the park had happened to her: a dark, rushed change that would never change back." This is England's mystery writer Bill James describing a 13-year-old girl known as Noon, soon to be shot dead while working as a drug courier near a rundown park. Her death sets off a series of explosions in James's latest book in his wonderfully dark and exquisitely written Harpur & Iles series.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Co., 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 198 pages. Black & white illustrations by Scott Lusby. Light soiling to endpapers. Soiling to edges, covers, especially spine. Corners a bit bumped.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Bill Nelson. When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, it's up to P.I. Donald Lam to get to the bottom of her disappearance -- and of a mining scam, an illegal casino operation, a double homicide, and an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune...if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in! Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-colored cloth stamped in black, 270 pages illustrated in b&w by Pelagie Doane. A mystery for young readers. Alice Ware spends a summer vacation away from home with the Frasier family and their daughter, Theodora. Adventures follow. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Black & white illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Dust jacket price-clipped with light soiling, HarperCrest label on spine.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In a future world, which looks back on ours as the fabulous, inventive age of Ago, a group of young people take over the guardianship of a marble torch and set out on a journey to find its true home. 176 pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 469 pages. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. In a stunning follow-up to his acclaimed 'The Congressman's Daughter,' award winning novelist Craig Nova portrays the consequences of reckless desire between two people, consequences that shatter the lives of all those around them.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by BALDACCI.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 414 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In Sawgamet, a north woods boomtown gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer, and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Stephen, a pastor, is at home on the eve of his mother's funeral, thirty years after the mythic summer his grandfather returned to the town in search of his beloved but long-dead wife. And like his grandfather, Stephen is forced to confront the losses of his past. Touch introduces you to a world where monsters and witches oppose singing dogs and golden caribou, where the living and the dead part and meet again in the crippling beauty of winter and the surreal haze of summer.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats. Light edgewear to dust jacket, short tears at bottom. Ex-library stamp on both end papers, otherwise clean. Dust jacket price clipped .
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Reissue of Burke's long out-of-print experimental novel, originally published in 1931. With a new Foreword by Burke for this edition. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Advance Review Copy, rose colored wraps stamped in black. Cover and next two blank pages loose from spine, spine has paper loss, exposing signatures. Still a firm binding except for cover and first two pages, clean.