Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DIMMICK on the title page. Like a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of TV's Law and Order, this second novel from Dimmick (following In the Presence of Horses) describes the aftermath of a horrendous physical attack at a Rhode Island school. In this particular incident, a knife-wielding student has disfigured teacher Zoe Muir. Unable to return to business-as-usual, she moves to northern Vermont, buys an unfinished house in the woods, and attempts to reconstruct her life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Clean, copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $2.50 on flap, 304 pages. Stated First Edition with M-I code on copyright page. Title-page printed in red and black. Original gray cloth lettered in black, backstrip decorated in red and lettered in black. "George Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois and into the soul of America itself."

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's back, Grandmother Pearl has just signed the family property over to the Almighty. In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. New York , Armchair Detective Library, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 297 pages. Introduction by James Ellroy. Blue cloth covers with silver lettering and design with author cameo on front cover. Spots on back of cover otherwise very clean. Originally published in 1946 and unavailable in any edition for over 50 yrs.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters--so jail is where Harold Kunt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose. HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER is Donald E. Westlake at his funniest and his most ingenious, a rediscovered crime classic from the MWA Grand Master returning to stores for the first time in three decades. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, dust jacket with light spine fade. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on front fly leaf. Small remainder line to bottom edge. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, The Macaulay Company, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration in bw, "At the sharp crack of the rifle, Moran stopped short." Brown cloth boards with orange printed titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light foxing to a few pages. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st U.S., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY O'BRIEN on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. Mylar cover. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else like new. "A haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned" - in Africa where a man is recounting his days during the slave trade, in America with a young man serving a sentence of life imprisonment, and in Europe, where a woman, survivor of the Holocaust, realizes that she cannot really escape.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 293 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt & Company, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,3 46 pages. With occasional Vermont verses by Sarah N. Cleghorn. Maroon cloth with gilt title to front and spine. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light sun-fade and edgewear to spine and faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st U.S., 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-tone cloth stamped in gilt and dark blue, 576 pages. First published in England in 1891. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy. He's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently. Keller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps the job strictly business. "What happens is you wind up thinking of each subject not as a person to be killed but as a problem to be solved. Now there are guys doing this who cope with it by making it personal. They find a reason to hate the guy they have to kill. I don't know what's a sin and what isn't, or if one person deserves to go on living and another deserves to have his life ended. Sometimes I think about stuff like that, but as far as working it all out in my mind, well, I never seem to get anywhere."But while Keller might be a pragmatic and crack assassin, he's also prone to doubts and loneliness just like everybody else. There was a psychotherapist once. A dog. Even a woman. And though he's got Dot, his wisecracking contact and sometimes confidante, and his precious stamp collection, these days, it doesn't seem to be enough.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Richard B. Farrell, Gregory Manchess. After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. What he found was Corliss Mason: sensual, irresistible--and deadly. Soon Swede's helping Corliss cover up a killing, but how long can they get away with murder? And why can't he shake the terrible suspicion that he's being set up? Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st published in England in 1987.

Softcover. New York, Viking, uncor. proof, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Softcover with minor wear to wrappers. Signed on title page. Tight copy. Crease on front top right corner.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 206 pages. Exploring the nature of a new people created by Soviet communal society, this novel centers on a group of Soviet emigres living in a boarding house in Germany, each seeking to establish a niche in the West. Dripping venom, the narrator ranges in systematic fashion through the actions of the communist regime from 1917 to the present, excoriating Soviet history. Seen through the cold eye of the observer, the System is duplicitous, corrupt, inefficient and boring, when it is not simply maddening. This furious, outraged, highly theatrical monologue documenting the emergence of the New Man, Homo sovieticus, will seem a definitive portrait to those familiar with the ways of the Kremlin. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Ron Lesser. If you were small-time grifter Walter Harsh, recovering in a hospital with a broken arm, you'd listen to a proposition that could net you a cool $50,000 for impersonating the South American strongman you resemble. You'd pay attention when the dictator's sultry mistress started putting the moves on you. And in the dead of night, when no one was watching, you might just hatch a plot to get it all for yourself: the money, the girl, and the stash of stolen loot she's conspiring to spirit out of the country. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An English mystery Introducing Alison Hope and Nick Trevellyan. Rural Hop Valley plays host to a small group of well-drawn characters, most of whom gather at Hope's open house only to find themselves suspect in the bludgeon murder of Hope's cousin late that night. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages. Translated by Richard Howard. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Hardcover. New York , Little Brown and Co., 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, black cloth covers with red lettering. Nice, clean copy of the novel which the Hitchcock film "Spellbound" is based.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, like new in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AMIS on title page. With The House of Meetings, Martin Amis may finally have written the novel his critics thought would never come. By taming his signature (and polarizing) stylistic high-wire act, Amis has crafted a sober tale of love and cynicism against the grim curtain of Stalin's Russia. The book's anonymous narrator--a Red Army veteran and unapologetic war criminal--and his passive, poetic half-brother, Lev, become pinned in a politically dangerous love triangle with the exotic Zoya, though their tactics (and intentions) are as divergent as their personalities. Swept up in the wave of Stalin's paranoid purges, the brothers are sent independently to Norlag, a Siberian internment camp where their respective fates are cast through their contrasting reactions to the depravity of the prison. Zoya and Lev share a night in "The House of Meetings," a room provided for conjugal visits with the prisoners, and the events of that night reverberate through the decades, the details of the liaison remaining concealed until the story's devastating denouement.