Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" (New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He's been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, among numerous other honors. His first work of fiction in nearly two decades, Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British aristocracy, Country Dark is a novel that blends the best of Larry Brown and James M. Cain, with a noose tightening evermore around a man who just wants to protect those he loves.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 260 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brief notes in pencil on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy. Habberton spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about early California life and for his hugely successful book 'Helen's Babies.'

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. More than seventy b/w engravings by the author. Some tanning to pages due to age. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Some foxing at gutters and endpapers. Binding good. Spine straight. Here is a record of English village life. Several stories out of Leighton's imagination accompanied by her detailed engravings.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 295 pages. West's unfinished novel, the subsequent chapters following This Real Night. A feminist novel that reveals both the problems of marriage and the ecstasies of sexual love, completing the final chapters of the saga that began with THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS, and continued with THIS REAL NIGHT. Afterword by Victoria Glendinning. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, b&w illustrations by Ray Abel. Bright, unclipped dust jacket with some light chipping to top edge. Was Wales, North Dakota, really a wicked little village? Lucy was worried not only because she loved Wales, but also because that summer she was going to drive to Minneapolis with her parents to meet cousins she had never seen before. Would they think Wales was a terrible place too? Yet there were good things, like the county fair and the Stone Age Girls Club that met in the little stone house in Lucy's backyard.

Hardcover. NY, Berkley Prime Crime, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 171 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages, b&w illustrations by Robert MacLean. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket with slight scratch near to of spine. Very faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Previously published in 1980 under the title "Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Previously published in 1980 under the title "Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Previously published in 1980 under the title "Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen". Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Orange cloth. Minor soiling to covers, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a neat, tight copy. Author's second novel. Bodenheim was a very influential realist writer, considered the quintessential American Bohemian.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and clean beauty who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian she has met by "cold bump"--making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone she targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her "contacts"--shadowy figures in business and government--instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more. *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NPR, THE ECONOMIST, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOX, and more*. Clean copy.

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. 86 pages, b&w illustrations by Shelley Freshman. "Cricket is a charming little fellow with immense longings. Bored with his life as a farmer, with the sun and the grass, he yearns for something new, something that will bring him fame and fortune." No markings.

Hardcover. Indianapolis , Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering. B&W plates by Frederic Dorr Steele. Hinges partially cracked, otherwise nice, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America , 4th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 990 pages. James M. Cain's pioneering novel of murder and adultery along the California highway, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), shocked contemporaries with its laconic toughness and fierce sexuality. Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. In Thieves Like Us (1937), Edward Anderson vividly brings to life the dusty roads and back-country hideouts where a fugitive band of Oklahoma outlaws plays out its destiny. The Big Clock (1946), an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and ultimately murderous chief executive. William Lindsay Gresham's controversial Nightmare Alley (1946), a ferocious psychological portrait of a charismatic carnival hustler, creates an unforgettable atmosphere of duplicity, corruption, and self-destruction. I Married a Dead Man (1948), a tale of switched identity set in the anxious suburbs, is perhaps the most striking novel of Cornell Woolrich, who found in the techniques of the gothic thriller the means to express an overpowering sense of personal doom. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, World Syndicate Publishing Co, reprint, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 287 pages. Black & white frontispiece. Some edgewear. Front hinge loose at title-page. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1948, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #207. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge glue undone in front. Map on rear wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Sallis's beautifully written second book to feature Turner, an ex-cop and ex-con (after 2004's Cypress Grove), Turner is working as a deputy sheriff in Cripple Creek, Tenn., a small town where crime is minor and strictly local. Then, late one night, Sheriff Don Lee arrests drunk driver Judd Kurtz with $200,000 in a nylon gym bag hidden in the trunk of his car. Kurtz breaks out of the town jail, seriously wounding two officers in the process. Turner's investigation leads him to an organized crime connection in nearby Memphis that enmeshes him in a web of escalating violence.

Hardcover. NY, Meredith Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly rubbed dust jacket. A story set in Nebraska in the 1800s. Centers on the relationship between Matt Bailey and a young Sioux brave, Red Bear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, ist, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a die-cut window, Newbery Medal sticker on front. Copyright page states First Edition with the lowest number being 2. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright. unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages, hardcover, like new copy of this Newbery Award Winner for 2006. First printing of the first edition with no medal sticker on cover.