Hardcover. Boston, G K Hall & Co, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 585 pages. Lists and provides the reader with descriptions of 1440 titles, 121 authors, with a brief plot summary. If you love the classic English mystery novels of the first half of the 20th century, this is a great book to have on your shelf. It chronicles all of the authors, novels and lead characters from these books. Special features include a list of 100 classics of the genre, explanations and charts of England's Police and class system, and maps of Great Britan and Ireland. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 224 pages, embellished with James Flora's two-color illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 314 pages. Color frontis and endpaper drawing by Rowland Hilder, b&w illustrations by Richard Southern. An historical adventure set on the high sea. Mild shelf wear to covers, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Introduction by Edmund Wilson, translated from French by Derek Coltman. "When A Season in the Life of Emmanuel first appeared in 1966, it was hailed as a masterpiece both in North American and in Western Europe. Marie-Claire Blais's stunning accomplishment was to evoke rural Quebec with both the knowledge and the passion of a latter-day Zola." Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The sequel to A Real Shot in the Arm which won the 1989 John Creasey Award for best crime novel. It features the heroine Chris, a middle-aged housewife turned local journalist/sleuth, determined to uncover a murder mystery. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This collection of twenty-seven stories of Frank O'Connor, written between 1957 and his death in 1966, presents us with a stifling petitbourgeois society which seems deliberately organized to starve the mind and the emotions. Young people, crippled by poverty and sexual timidity, wait for their parents to die in order to marry; illegitimate children dream and mourn over families they never know; middle-aged bachelors nest with their mothers; priests live and die in terrible loneliness. Through all the stories runs the ubiquitous influence of the Church--like drink, a curse of the Irish. And yet somehow, this depressing material is turned in O'Connor's stories to charm. Clean copy.

London/NY, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket that has a closed 2" tear along spine. 500 pages, b&w illustrations. Don Siegel was one of Hollywood's most controversial directors. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of the very few acknowledged science-fiction classics, and Magnum Force - with its catch-phrase 'Make my day' - has become part of our modern consciousness. Siegel's five-film collaboration with Clint Eastwood created a body of films that are as distinctive as they are different, and enriched the reputation of both of them. This autobiography has all the fun and energy one would expect from Don Siegel. From his first days as an assistant editor in the Warner Brothers cutting rooms, Siegel charts his rich and varied career. This is a wonderful book of reminiscences, told in a lively and vivid style, whose cast of characters includes John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, Bogart and Bacall, studio head Jack Warner and other luminaries of the golden age of the Hollywood studios (including a fading film star called Ronald Reagan, whose last film, The Killers, was directed by Siegel).At the centre of the book is Siegel's relationship with Clint Eastwood, whose directing career was encouraged by Siegel, and who supplies an amusing and appreciative foreword to the book. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, BC Ed., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Newbery Medal sticker on front. 152 pages. A nice Book Club reprint of the Newbery winner. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Caught up in the family drama involving his childhood friends, the Sonniers, Cajun sleuth Dave Robicheaux discovers that the family may be involved with the powerful Bobby Earl, a Klansman-turned-politician.

Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First novel by the author of I Cover the Waterfront. Harried businessman takes a year off to loaf on a houseboat. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 4th pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 370 pages. When fourteen-year-old Jen leaves her home in Massachusetts to visit her father, brother, and sister in Wales, she never expects anything but a normal winter break from school; until her brother finds the tuning key to Taliesin's harp. Author's first book, originally published in 1976. Small owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Silver Newbery Medal emblem on the front panel.

Softcover. NY, Mulholland Books, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. It was supposed to be only a temporary job -- something to pay the bills until Dusty could get his feet back on the ground and raise enough money for medical school. After all, there's nothing wrong with being a bellboy at a respectable hotel like the Manton -- that is, until she came along. Marcia Hillis. The perfect woman. Beautiful. Experienced. Older and wiser. The only woman to ever measure up to that other her -- the one whose painful rejection Dusty can't quite put from his mind. A richly-imagined crime narrative of the Oedipal and betrayal, A Swell-Looking Babe is Thompson at his very best -- a cornerstone in Thompson's enduring legacy as the Dimestore Dostoyevsky of American fiction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Truth Seeker Company, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and gilt. Morgan Andrew Robertson [1861-1915] was an American author and the self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope. This title is apparently his rare first book- a narrative poem about heaven versus the devil. B&w frontis and great text illustrations by A. Carey K. Jurist. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. The second novel in Friedman's highly-praised mystery-suspense series featuring Georgia Lee Maxwell set in France. Remainder line to top edge. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st, 1905, Hardcover, black cloth with 3-color decoration of horseman's carriage on front cover, red lettering on spine, 372 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with ten plates in b&w by Cyrus Cuneo. Some of the white ink on cover appears to have flaked off. The are 4 lines in pencil on inside front cover. There are several dog-earred pages just before page 300. Otherwise a very nice copy of this first edition by Hornung.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcopver in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The eighth novel in Block's award-winning and critically-praised crime-thriller series featuring New York private detective and recovering alcoholic, Matt Scudder, this time searching for the psychopath who has vowed to kill him -- after he has murdered any woman with any connection, no matter how small, to the detective. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Coward McCann, Inc., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, illustrated in B&W by Forrest Orr. Dust jacket with edgewear, light chipping, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, The Literary Guild of America , BC Ed., Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Book Club edition. The 2nd Tommy Hambledon adventure. When it was first published in 1941 in the U.S., A Toast to Tomorrow ( Pray Silence in Britain), along with its predecessor Drink to Yesterday, was heralded by famed critic Anthony Boucher as "a single long and magnificent novel of drama, intrigue and humor." Howard Haycraft, the dean of mystery historians, called the two books "superior" examples of the new wave of realistic spy-and- intrigue. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. When Lee Scarborough came upon the brunette sunbathing topless in her back yard, getting involved in a heist was the last thing on his mind. But somehow that's where he found himself--sneaking through a stranger's house, on the hunt for $120,000 in embezzled bank funds. It looked like an easy score. But one thing stood between him and the money: the beautiful and deadly Madelon Butler. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. When Lee Scarborough came upon the brunette sunbathing topless in her back yard, getting involved in a heist was the last thing on his mind. But somehow that's where he found himself--sneaking through a stranger's house, on the hunt for $120,000 in embezzled bank funds. It looked like an easy score. But one thing stood between him and the money: the beautiful and deadly Madelon Butler. Like new.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a shelfworn dust jacket, 64 pages. With illustrations on nearly every page, including a multi colored double page frontispiece and a double page illustration at the end. This charming story set in a fishing village on a lake in France, and the adventures of two village children.

Hardcover. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards, 172 pages. One of the most innovative films ever made, Sam Peckinpah's motion picture The Wild Bunch was released in 1969. From the outset, the film was considered controversial because of its powerful, graphic, and direct depiction of violence, but it was also praised for its lush photography, intricate camera work, and cutting-edge editing. Peckinpah's tale of an ill-fated, aging outlaw gang bound by a code of honor is often regarded as one of the most complex and impactful Westerns in American cinematic history. The issues dealt with in this groundbreaking film-violence, morality, friendship, and the legacy of American ambition and compromise-are just as relevant today as when the film first opened. To acknowledge the significance of The Wild Bunch, this collection brings together some of the leading Peckinpah scholars and critics to examine what many consider to be the director's greatest work. The book's nine essays cover an array of topics. Explored are the function of violence in the film and how its depiction is radically different from what is seen in other movies, the background of the film's production, the European response to the film's view of human nature, and the strong sense of the Texas/Mexico milieu surrounding the film's action. Clean copy.