Hardcover. Honesdale PA, Boyds Mills Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages, b&w illustrations by Edward Gorey. A reissue of a 1970 edition with a new preface by Paula Danziger.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1t, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 166 pages. Story of two cousins & their mothers, one of whom has run away. Dust jacket illustration by James McMullan.

Softcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This signed first edition of author and journalist Sid Smith's novel 'Something Like A House' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, following a British soldier who deserts to China during the Korean War and stays there some 35 years, bringing up a little girl who later becomes a victim of experimental biological warfare. Despite being set in China, Smith had never traveled there before writing the novel, the background gleaned from extensive research at the British Library amongst other places. An exciting novel set in a China almost unknown to the outside world, a chilling account of an army deserter living through a Cultural Revolution. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, William R. Scott , 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED on front fly leaf. Tight copy. Illustrated with black line drawings by Mary D. Shipman.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FFORDE and signed "Jasper" on the title page. Thursday has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap--as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and if that isn't bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid in. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 3rd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket that has light edgewear. Illustrated with b&w drawings by William Stobbs. 248 pages transl. from German by Isabel and Florence McHugh. Clean copy. Against the dramatic background of hardship and adventure of his fourth voyage of discover to the West Indies the author has set the enigmatic character of Columbus himself, and the moving story of his son Fernan's friendship with the Red Indian boy Tahaka. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 229 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 3rd Printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 633 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder and Co., 1st thus, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 47 pages, blue boards with gilt design, beveled edges, tan spine. Limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade paper, deckle edges, top edge gilt. Light rubbing to edges of spine.

New York , Crowell, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Multi-color woodcut illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. A small African boy helps his father locate the right tree to make a new canoe to replace the one broken by an alligator. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale green cloth stamped with dark blue design of boy ringing church bell. No "A" so a reprint. Title page art says 1949. Color, 2-color Illustrations by Politi. Clean copy of the 1950 Caldecott winner.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 359 pages. minor shelf-wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Three years ago, detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever--and left a woman he loved dead. Now Blake is back, to investigate the apparent suicide of Dorothy Louise Burke, a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets Blake uncovers could blow the lid off New York City's sex trade...if they don't kill him first.Richard Aleas' first novel, LITTLE GIRL LOST, was among the most celebrated crime novels of the year, receiving nominations for both the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Shamus Award. But nothing in John Blake's first case could prepare you for the shocking conclusion of his second. Like new.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dj.

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket,150 pages. Black & white illustrations by Marvin Friedman. What happens when Pinch and Sorrow Nix tend to an injured crane and try to protect it from The Zoo Man and others who want the bird for their own profit.

Softcover. NY, Harper Prism, ist proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers with black type. This is a Uncorrected Proof of the author's 14th book in the Discworld Series. The Discworld, a rich and evolving fantasy land comprised of interlinking sub-series of novels, is Pratchett's legacy. Like new, no markings. The first US hardcover trade edition was published in 1995. Rear cover with small wrinkle near spine. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, MacMillan, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Red boards, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. Spine very faded, edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, price-clipped, slight foxing to inside of dust jacket and endpapers, pages clean, crisp and marked; overall a neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate. When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the caravan of workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There aren't any jobs for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few things she could do for the workers to keep afloat -- an arrangement that Tommy can't bear for long. As Tommy's about to find out, when you're South of Heaven, you're far from grace - -and sometimes the only way out is down. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 3rd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with yellow lettering on spin and front cover, 280 pages. Map endpapers, color frontis and 17 b&w illustrations by John Whiting. This is a fictional account of an Antarctic expedition that appears to be based on the Scott, Shackleton and with a little of the Byrd Little America 1928-30 expeditions. Includes a Forward by J. S. O'Brien, an engineer on the first Little America expedition commenting on the writing skills of the fictional "Jack Meredith" for "... the most realistic of any I have every read." Brief inscription on blank prelim page otherwise clean.