Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "Mrs. Nelson thinks her husband may be having an illicit affair- a run-of-the-mill situation as far as John Marshall Tanner, one-time lawyer turned investigator, is concerned. Except that the beautiful Mrs. Nelson doesn't want her husband's infidelity documented. The facts must be covered up to protect him from scandal and blackmail. With the first sentences of the book, you will know you are in the hands of a great Chandler fan and detective story craftsman." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt Rine hart winston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Grove Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, introduction by Stephen King and personal reminiscences by Forrest J. Ackerman, Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison and Peter Straub. This volume contains over 500 of the finest vintage film posters of the genres covering a span of nearly 75 years. In a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2014-04-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. How do we stay put on our planet and not float away into outer space? What makes things fall to the ground from high places? Chin introduces youngsters to the concept of gravity, presenting the information in highly understandable language and in captivating paintings that will delight young readers. Deceptively simple large print text describe how gravity affects all things on Earth as well as in outer space. Colorful and incredibly detailed watercolor landscapes and close-up illustrations keep readers' attention, and certain objects are repeated throughout the pages. Although Gravity is set up like a fictional text, the information necessary to understand the basics of gravity are present.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Erotic illustrations from the pulps with a chart in the back identifying the artists. Mild musty smell, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Dell, 1st pbk., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Dell #181. No marking, minor wear to covers, map on rear cover. Laminate peeling in rear. Pages light toning. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 207 pages, maroon boards with beige cloth spine, illustrated with 10 b&w drawings by Joseph Cellini. Light edgewear, chipping to dust jacket, price clipped. Otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Boston, Little Brown , reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages, b&w line illustrations. Red cloth with white and greenfloral decoration. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 278 pages, very clean and tight copy.The Great Fire was the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett "is brilliant and dazzling..."The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Hardcover. B&w illust. by Eloise Wilkin. Small 1" tear at gutter of frontpiece, light fraying to bottom of cloth spine.

NY, Viking, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by the author. 188 pages. In a nice, bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover edges. Light soil to front covers.

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 216 pages, Library Ed. stiker on dj, spine slightly faded. Dickon sets to find and warn the playwright Marlowe of danger. He is aided and hindered by a tough little urchin, Cecily, who teaches him the culture of the road. Set in Elizabethan England, with glossary.

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 48 pages. Black & white illustrations by Charles Robinson. Dust jacket with edgewear, rubbing. Clear plastic protective cover. Price clipped. The story of a boy's quest to buy and build a cage for a pet mouse.

Hardcover. London/New York, Viking/Kestrel, Revised Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages, illustrated in b&w by Antony Maitland. Edited by Brian Alderson with his notes on the stories in the rear. Previous owner's handwritten note inside front cover otherwise clean with a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages. Hardcover. Not ex-library. Black and white illustrations by Paul Brown. Front and rear endpapers illustrated in red. Part of the Clara Ingram Judson "They Came From" series. Green cloth covers with title in black on front cover and spine. Dust jacket with chipping and some tape repaired tears along edges - Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Book listed on rear inside flap is "The Lost Violin". A few rough page edges from closed pages being opened by original owner. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green, 254 pages. Light shelf wear, clean copy. Another Tommy Hambledon thriller, this time the British agent is in Berlin investigating a professor who's developed a new exposive.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, 1st US, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, with 10 b&w illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Dust jacket edge wear and small tears along top edge, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #918.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 1st published in the UK in 1969.

Hardcover. NY, Arden Book Co., ist thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 276 pages, all edges green. Notable for the great b&w illustrations by Keith Henderson, some double-page. No date give. Dust jacket with some short tape repairs on the verso, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full blue cloth, silver titling, map endsheets. Local color novel about life in the Mississippi River Delta of Louisiana, by an author living in that area. Clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd issue, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper and dedication in ink on inside front cover. The second issue or state of the first edition with "Copyright, 1927, 1928, by Charles Scribner's Sons" on the copyright page. Dust jacket with chipping and wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #111. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear cover. Small ink notation on first page. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.