Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 277 pages, black cloth spine over beige color boards. Lettering on spine faded, light fraying to top of spine. Front pastedown with previous owner's bookplate and small bookstore sticker. Otherwise clean, tight copy of a scarce book.
NY, Seabury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Imero Gobbato. In a bight, unclipped dust jacket. A young soldier battle a dozen devils after being locked in the turret of an old mansion. Based on a Latvian folk tale.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition. Wittily sending up the "child prodigy'' (if not biography, history, and high seriousness itself), Yorinks and Egielski trace the course of Minski's genius. A child of the 18th Century, Minski prankishly ``discovers'' gravity and electricity, soon followed by his serene introduction of the telephone, airplane, automobile, aspirin, light bulb, etc. Leonardo da Vinci appears in 18th-Century Vienna to applaud Minski's ``noodle.'' But when Minski hears the (historical) Farinelli sing, he labors feverishly on a formula to transform himself from scientist to artist, and achieves a triumphant apotheosis as ``unequaled singer.'' Egielski's exuberantly detailed, warmly colored pictures make the most of the anachronisms, the caricatures, and the Old World setting.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A compelling portrait of the disintegration of the members of the Caldwell family, who have retreated to a horse farm from the city rat-race and their painful struggle to confront the problematic relationships they share. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket, small spot on front cover. Light pencil markings to some pages, previous owner's bookplate to rear endpaper. Tight binding, tight signatures.
New York, Viking Press, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 209 pages. Black & white illustrations by David Rook. In a very nice turquoise dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, John W. Lovell Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 539 pages. Hardcover. Decorated covers, gilt title on spine. bound in green fabric. Former library book with remaining markings, seals and residual labels. Spine broken on back endpapers, but still intact. Pages and edges age-yellowed. Covers in good shape with some chipping/fraying to edges and spine top and bottom. In excellent condition for its age.
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages, color frontispiece illustration by Gary Kelley. Deluxe edition by the Franklin Library. Bound in jet black cloth with attractive gilt decorations and titles. Three raised bands to the spine. All edges gilt. Printed on high quality, acid free paper. After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one by one.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "In transposing to an Iranian setting the conventions of the thriller--the hard-drinking detective, the threatened heroine, the frantic escape from a brutal adversary--Koenig invests his story with unusual resonance. Here the familiar figure of the honest cop plays his role in the unfamiliar milieu of Teheran's fundamentalist Islamic society, as he becomes a threat to the government itself. Conducting a routine murder investigation to solve the death of a sexually mutilated young woman, chief homicide detective Darius Bakhtiar discovers the existence of a state-sponsored terrorist group, the Brides of Blood. This secret sorority of virgins, fanatical in their religious devotion, are trained to martyr themselves in terrorist aggression. After Bakhtiar uncovers evidence of sanctioned efforts to arm Iran with biological weapons, he and Maryam Lejavardi, the beautiful former Bride he has begun to protect and love, are tortured in Iran's feared Evin prison. The unimaginable horrors of Iran's torture factory might have overwhelmed a lesser novelist, but Koenig artfully blends assiduous research and superbly maintained suspense as he builds to the thrilling, unrelenting--and very cinematic--final pages."
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell visits three elderly women, the bridesmaids from her late grandmother's wedding, who have informed her that her grandmother needs to communicate a message to her from beyond the grave.
Hardcover. NY, Arbor House, 1st, 1987-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 310 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight tear and creasing to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement."
Hardcover. London, Cresset Press, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. 1st UK. Covers bound in red fabric with gilt title on spine, very good. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has some age wear, light chipping to edges and spine, scratch on front cover (see image). Edges and pages have slight age yellow, but clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Ginn & Co, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Bookseller's label on rear end paper. Black & white illustrations by Charles Copeland and color frontispiece. Green cloth covers with gold decoration and lettering. Rubbing to spine and corners. No dust jacket. Gilt top edge.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.
Hardcover. London, Metheun, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Collector's Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Black leather bound, gilt lettering and design. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Patterned end papers. Collector's notes laid in. Introduction by Larry Niven. Illustrated with full-color, full-page, plates by A. C. Farley, printed on glossy stock. A 1953 novel of alternate history. The point of divergence occurs when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in the "War of Southron Independence" on July 4, 1864 after the surrender of the United States of America.
Hardcover. St. Lucia, Qld ; New York, University of Queensland Pr, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. Tan cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has light wear to edges. With an introduction by Bronwen Levy. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Peterborough NH, Noone House, 1st illust. thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, like-new dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece, b&w drawings by Tasha Tudor. Fascinating work about Plupy, Beany and Pewt, growing up in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the 1860s. Clean, unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 165 pages with b&w drawings by Ralph Pinto. A leprechaun must recapture the tune he lost to a fiddler. Pinto's chapter-top illustrations liven this already lively chain of Irish folk tales, loosely tied together through Brogeen the Leprechuan. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers, and dustjacket shows rubbing on front and fade to spine.
Softcover. Brattleboro VT, Green Writers Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 213 pages, like new condition. A mythic tale about loneliness and survival set in the northern hills of Vermont. Illustrated by Donald Saaf.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, pulse-pounding, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives, dope dealers, bounty hunters and fugitives, the lost souls driving without headlights through the dark night on the American criminal highway. With his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, action, and the highest level of literary craftsmanship, Winslow delivers a collection of tales that will become classics of crime fiction. Clean copy.