Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 295 pages. West's unfinished novel, the subsequent chapters following This Real Night. A feminist novel that reveals both the problems of marriage and the ecstasies of sexual love, completing the final chapters of the saga that began with THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS, and continued with THIS REAL NIGHT. Afterword by Victoria Glendinning. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Berkley Prime Crime, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Orange cloth. Minor soiling to covers, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a neat, tight copy. Author's second novel. Bodenheim was a very influential realist writer, considered the quintessential American Bohemian.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and clean beauty who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian she has met by "cold bump"--making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone she targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her "contacts"--shadowy figures in business and government--instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more. *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NPR, THE ECONOMIST, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOX, and more*. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis , Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering. B&W plates by Frederic Dorr Steele. Hinges partially cracked, otherwise nice, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America , 4th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 990 pages. James M. Cain's pioneering novel of murder and adultery along the California highway, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), shocked contemporaries with its laconic toughness and fierce sexuality. Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. In Thieves Like Us (1937), Edward Anderson vividly brings to life the dusty roads and back-country hideouts where a fugitive band of Oklahoma outlaws plays out its destiny. The Big Clock (1946), an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and ultimately murderous chief executive. William Lindsay Gresham's controversial Nightmare Alley (1946), a ferocious psychological portrait of a charismatic carnival hustler, creates an unforgettable atmosphere of duplicity, corruption, and self-destruction. I Married a Dead Man (1948), a tale of switched identity set in the anxious suburbs, is perhaps the most striking novel of Cornell Woolrich, who found in the techniques of the gothic thriller the means to express an overpowering sense of personal doom. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1948, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #207. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge glue undone in front. Map on rear wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Sallis's beautifully written second book to feature Turner, an ex-cop and ex-con (after 2004's Cypress Grove), Turner is working as a deputy sheriff in Cripple Creek, Tenn., a small town where crime is minor and strictly local. Then, late one night, Sheriff Don Lee arrests drunk driver Judd Kurtz with $200,000 in a nylon gym bag hidden in the trunk of his car. Kurtz breaks out of the town jail, seriously wounding two officers in the process. Turner's investigation leads him to an organized crime connection in nearby Memphis that enmeshes him in a web of escalating violence.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright. unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Werner Ernst, a second-year medical resident, encounters the stark realities of the modern intensive care unit, the fears and illusions of the loved ones of the terminally ill, and the exhaustion and irony of doctors, nurses, and technicians. A first novel.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover. Rare first edition. Covers bound in green with gilt title on spine and front cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Covers show some age wear: moisture stain on back cover, some soil and fraying/chipping on spine. Pages and edges have age-yellowing. Foxing on endpapers and preliminary/back pages, but doesn't affect text. Split at gutters in a few places, but binding still tight. In good condition for its age.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover.339 pages. Slight sunning to dust jacket spine, else a very nice, tight copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Boswell's debut novel of an eccentric Arizona family was called "brilliant" "piercing" and "dazzling" by the critics, and adapted into a film with Peter Berg and Peter Coyote. Signed by author Boswell in ink on the title page.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #104. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Frot wrapper is separated from spine. Pencil notation to first page.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Provides fresh insight into the age old tale of a woman who grows as an individual and literally explodes out of her marriage. May Sarton describes the burgeoning artist confined by a social contract. Light fading to spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macaulay, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue covers with titles and image of talon in black. Black & white frontispiece by George W. Gage. Light wear to covers otherwise VG.

Hardcover. New York, Covici-Friede, 2nd pr., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. Previous owners name and the number "10" on front endpaper. Top edge stained black. Price clipped dust jacket with light chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Sun Dial Press, Inc., Reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. Reprint. Price clipped dust jacket with darkening to spine, chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered they weren't his only lover, not even his partner in the Gilbert and Blake literary agency--me. But when I found him shot to death on the floor of his office, I had no choice. I had to track down the person responsible. And not just to lay Del to rest, either. Next to his body, the office safe was wide open, and a contract worth millions was missing.From the pen of MWA Grand Master Ed McBain comes this unforgettable story of warring agents and Hollywood dealmaking, murder and scandal--and passions igniting in the dark of night. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Louie the loan-shark's life is a big nothing until he becomes caught up in his uncle's scheme to rig the state lottery, and then he has more excitement than he can handle.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 163 pages. When Danita finds out that she has an older half brother, she must reexamine the way she sees her father & family.

Hardcover. Franklin Square PA, Franklin Mystery, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, tight copy. Gilt decorated covers.