Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Purple cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. Illustrations on endpapers. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing with 12 color plates and page edges tinted yellow. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page, front and rear hinges cracked. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Counterpoint, 2nd pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 161 pages. An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha, but during Alikhanov's stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, his life continues to unravel.Populated with unforgettable characters?including Alikhanov's fellow guides Mitrofanov and Pototsky, and the KGB officer Belyaev? Pushkin Hills ranks among Dovlatov's renowned works The Suitcase and The Zone as his most personal and poignant portrayal of the Russian attitude towards life and art.
Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in red and gilt, 322 pages plus publisher's ads. 6 b&w illustrations 9not credited). Clean copy.
Hardcover. London , Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Kavanagh is actually Julian Barnes. Wrinkle to lamination on dust jacket cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman, Glen Orbik. With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he's working for. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks. But in this wide-open city--with sin everywhere, and betrayal around every corner--Quarry must make the most dangerous choice of his deadly career: who to kill? Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. Evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man--the ruthless professional known as Quarry can keep Climer from becoming a casualty in the Sexual Revolution. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. It's normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they're dead bodies--and the cast and crew discover they're trapped in a house with a serial killer--Quarry's got his work cut out for him. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one--by expecting trouble.What he didn't expect was ever running into her again. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target? Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target? Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It's not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences--but coming after Quarry has consequences, too. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on title page.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay. The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren't made for taking orders--and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter. Like new.
Hardcover. London, Fisher Unwin, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black and gilt decoration. Sepia photograph as frontispiece, top edge gilt. Covers show edge wear, rubbing. Preliminary pages with foxing, tanning. Internally clean, solid copy.
New York , Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Illustrated in color by the author. In very good condition. Beautiful full-color illustrations based on Renaissance paintings complement the whimsical story of the foolish Queen Ruby, whose vanity and love for getting dressed up to go for her carriage ride almost bring her country to ruin.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 232 pages. Green cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Slight circular stain to front cover. Previous owner's signature to front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth with a color paste-down on the front cover. Color illustrated title page. Nine additional full page color illustrations plus endpapers art in 2-colors by C. Bosseron Chambers. The gilt lettering on spine has faded. Interior clean, no dust jacket. Mild spotting to rear cover.
Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln, 1st US, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. A biography of the filmmaker told in a graphic novel format. From the set of 1993's Pulp Fiction, to a bar room meeting with Robert Rodriguez and an inspirational lunch with Leonardo di Caprio, this unique graphic novel takes us across a series of Hollywood-inspired vignettes covering the movie-obsessed life and career of one of modern cinema's greatest filmmakers - Quentin Tarantino. Join the conversation as Tarantino talks John Travolta into starring in Pulp Fiction, find out about the inspiration for his earliest screenplays and learn about Tarantino's obsessive childhood growing up in California. 126 pages in color. Clean copy.
Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages, b&w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. In a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. The Brevitt brothers find themselves being tracked down by two ruthless murders when they undertake a search for hidden treasure. Set in Australia.