NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 182 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Maurice Sendak. Early edition. Ex-lib with stamped pocket on back endpaper. Paste remains on front and back paste-down endpapers, spine label. Dust jacket price clipped and bottom of front flap missing. Little Davie lavishes attention on his pet rabbit & saves him when the little animal disappears. Sensitive & riveting tale.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with his typical abbreviated signature on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. Illustrated with color plates by Wendell Minor. SIGNED BY WENDELL MINOR.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #994. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers and pages in rear.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket, 301 pages. Adventure on the High Seas in Which Stuart Ormsby is Shanghaied Aboard the Tramp Steamer 'Nanking' Bound for Ports on the China Coast.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. When 15-year-old Angeleno Shanny Adler comes to spend the summer on aged Aunt Adabelle's ranch in the boondocks of Idaho, she brings along a purple punk hair-do, a drum set, a collection of esoteric trivia and a standard YA protagonist's pressing need to "find herself." By the end of the book she has found not only herself (and turned out to be a Pretty, Talented, Caring and Generally Worthwhile Person) but also the love of talented, caring "superhunk" Thor. She also drives the local theatrical enterprise from failure to smashing success, inspires old Adabelle not to give up her ranch, resuscitates a newborn kitten and generally turns everything she touches to gold. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 245 pages. Eight months after being horribly disfigured in a car accident, Dan Marriott has his face rebuilt by plastic surgery, but he must still struggle with an amnesia that could mean his death as he is stalked by an unknown killer. Originally titled "The Plastic Nightmare". Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Honore Guilbeau, in rear, marbled covers with gilt title on leather spine, black slipcase. Minor corner bumps and light chip to spine edge, slipcase lightly cracked, overall, clean and tight.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCHINE on title-page. Clean, tIght copy.
Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cover boards. What appears to be written on title page under author's name is "and Elizabeth Kent Tarshis" in black print letters. Black & white illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. Light foxing to copy throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Pess, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 79 pages. A children's chapter book following the story of a Turkish girl. Author McDonald was a pioneering journalist. Charming detailed full color and black and white illustrations by Weda Yap. Light soiling to covers.
Hardcover. NY, GP Putman, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 374 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. A bright copy. When a man dies on live television, everyone believes it is a tragic accident. Kathy Mallory does not. The death was simply a performance planned for pagentry and spectacle. Mallory is on the trail of a killer whose mind makes the same dark twists as her own. The suspense builds steadily throughout the story until the compelling denoeument.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BROWN on the half-title page. An historical mystery based on and incorporating writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. From the world-famous creator of PERRY MASON, Erle Stanley Gardner--at his death the best-selling American author of all time--comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder--and Donald hip-deep in danger when he poses as an ex-con to infiltrate a criminal gang. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever, and a fitting conclusion to Hard Case Crime's revival of this classic (and long-unavailable) detective series. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1/4 black cloth. Silver lettering on spine. Black/purple decorative dj in protective clear plastic. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. National Book Award Finalist sticker on front. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 82 pages. Black & white illustrations by Erick Berry. Pink stain front cover. Story of a slave girl who lived at Mt. Vernon and was Nellie Custis's servant. Takes place at Mount Vernon in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A mesmerizing novel of deception and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt. John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and bottles of whiskey consumed in a mysterious cafe called L'Entre Deux Mondes, he recounts, in counterpoint to his doubts, the one story he has never told before, perhaps the only important one he will ever tell. North's chosen interlocutor-who could be his doppelganger-is transfixed by the revelations and becomes the narrator of North's tale.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1st thus, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with gilt titles on spine very faded, 12 color plates by Edmund Dulac. Endpapers foxed, rear covers with discoloration, light wear to top and bottom of spine. No markings.
NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 209 pages. Life in prehistoric Europe is recreated with drama and suspense as Shiva is kidnapped by an elder and must face the Ordeal by Poison. Clean copy.