Fiction Novels

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. 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.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 391 pages, dust jacket price-clipped, light edgewear. Light residue on rear endpapers. A Word Child charts the trials and tribulations of the title character, the "word child", Hilary Burde as he attempts to recover from his troubled past.

Hardcover. London, Martin Secker, 1st UK, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, plus 8 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Covers with 2 small bumps to brown cloth, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, 180 pages. Dust jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. The story of a screenwriter in Hollywood who is out of control.

Hardcover. NY, First Second, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent his career cultivating. In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? Two-color art throughout by Brian "Box" Brown. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BRINK at 1998 Breadloaf Writer's Conference. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 396 pages. This book won the 1986 Prix Medicis Etranger prize. The book is a full-blooded comic epic about the relationship between a daughter and her larger-than-life father in the wilds of Alaska. Light remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st thus, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching volumes complete, green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. B&w illustrations by Frank Richards. Edited by George Saintsbury. Covers show edgewear, spines darkened.

Hardcover. London, Thomas McLean, 1st, 1819, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Volumes, red hardcovers with half calf leather bindings. Heavy foxing and moderate soiling to pages. Fifteen engravings from drawings in color. Marbled end papers. Light chipping on edges of cover boards. Tight copies.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's writing and name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.

Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 5th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages plus publishers ads in rear. Orange cloth with maroon design, lettering. Stated Fifth Printing on copyright page, no date but circa 1930. Mild fading to spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st Canadian, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BANKS on title page. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st Canadian, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BANKS on the half-title page. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2015., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAGUIRE on the title page with a sketch of a rabbit in a teacup. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. SIGNED BY TREVOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Phil Broker is reunited with his estranged Delta Force superace wife, Nina , in Langdon, North Dakota, where borderland security is ineffective in stopping a smuggling operation across the easily penetratable Canadian border. Into the story, Nina is taken hostage by a sociopath with a plan to wreak havoc upon a large portion of the U. S. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Spanning from the end of the nineteenth century, when the colonizers carved up Africa, on through the tumultuous decades of revolt and suppression that followed, 'Afterlives' is an astonishingly moving portrait of survivors refusing to sacrifice their humanity to the violent forces that assail them." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Quinn Fawcett is the name used by Bill Fawcett and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Their first novel, featuring Sherlock Holmes's older brother Mycroft. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 412 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slight edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Mystery around the Lippizzaner horses of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Belgique, Lombard, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Color comics throughout. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, tight copy.