Hardcover. Toronto CA, McClelland & Stewart, 1st Canadian, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 312 pages. "An Englishman's home may be his castle, but to Sir Buckstone Abbott, Walsinford Hall was nothing but a blot on the landscape. With its glazed red bricks, its dome and minarets, it so jarred upon his sensitive soul that it was his avowed intention to unload the unsightly pile on the first prospective buyer. His chance came when the Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek expressed the opinion that the Hall was 'cute' and began toying with the idea of purchasing it." Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 349 pages. Rear dj lists to The Young Pitcher. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. British barrister and district coroner Julian Whyte finds his peaceful, uneventful life jeopardized by the return of his older brother, Raymond, an expatriate communist intellectual, and his new German wife, Kristina, in a suspenseful tale of brotherhood, guilt, betrayal, and death. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury Publishing , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 360 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows usual wear- now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high-security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits), and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The local press loves the story and they have collectively dubbed the burglar the Tag Man. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with green and gilt stamping. A story of love, murder and suicide, described by one critic as "atmospheric to the verge of mystical." The novel concerns a woman named Felicia Lissell, who travels to Rhodesia with her aunt, to visit the farm of Dick Cardross, but she doesn't suspect that "dangerous social complications awaited her in the gay English colony nearby." The author, born Lilian Julian Webb in London in 1862, was a resident of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1896. She achieved international recognition with the publication of her story collection "Virginia of the Rhodesians" in 1904, and went on to great success as the author of numerous novels. Owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Izzi's first book, a mystery set in Chicago.

Softcover. New York, Green Dragon Books, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Paperback. Cover art by Hoffman. Light soil, wear and corner crease. First few pages separated from glued binding. Fragile.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 309 pages, plus two pages of publisher's advertisement in rear, dark green cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing on endpaper, spine lightly cocked, minor corner and edge wear. Binding cracked on front and rear fly leaf, but all pages intact. Overall, clean and tight copy with bright pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY ANTONYA NELSON ON TITLE PAGE. Beautiful copy. Minor wear to brodart protected dust jacket, else like new. Two men meet briefly in a hospital, where both are visiting their dying fathers. They speak again just a few months later, when one of them impulsively calls the other, a psychologist, and a friendship of sorts starts to form. After the psychologist leaves his wife a few weeks later, she begins to fall in love with his friend, creating a triangle that threatens to destroy all three and their families. The wife must decide between two very different men, whom she loves in very different ways. As the focus of the novel turns toward the woman in the middle, it becomes increasingly clear that whomever she chooses, the effect on the lives of everyone involved will be immeasurable.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 275 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Slight wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 431 pages. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Very good.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with dark green lettering and decoration to front cover, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 252 pages. Rear dj lists to The Last of the Great Scouts. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Keith Beaumont, an ace British Arctic troubleshooter and scientific expert is despatched to research base Target-5 on the icepack near Greenland to intercept a Soviet defector named Gorov who is carrying secret documents detailing a submarine defence network. The contents could upset the balance of world power, as these stories dictate, so when Beaumont and Gorov are tailed by Soviet airborne assault troops, they must head towards the edge of the ice pack in a perilous journey. This is a short but thrilling novel firmly set in the 1970s. Clean copy.

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. Four b&w plates by J. Allen St. John. "Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ward & Drummond, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt, 418 pages, 6 b&w plates by Helen Strong. Mild rubbing, edgewear to covers. A novel extolling the temperace movement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, tattered dust jacket. Novel by an American journalist about fighting in Greece during WW2. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cleveland OH, Arthur Westbrook Co., 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback pulp detective mystery from about 1920. A sequel to the author's "The Coral Pin". Yellowing paper and a poor printing job, typical of these dime novels. An attractive color cover with light creasing, edgewear. Back cover missing.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket.