Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages, hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, fictitious autobiography, very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Donald Fine, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. A Devon village during the hot, dry days of a devastating 1984 summer drought forms the backdrop to the story of thirteen-year-old Alison, youngest child of prosperous farmers, her family, and her friendship with the son of a local viscount.
Hardcover. London, John Long, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,320 pages, blue cloth cobers with black and red design, gilt title on spine. Minor edge wear and rubbing, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. A scarce copy with very clean pages and tight binding.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 628 pages. Light orange boards, brown cloth spine with stamped gilt titles, dust jacket completely illustrated in color, with mylar protective covering, brown endpapers. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, very stiff binding; an exceptionally clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Those who dread the dentist's chair will crack a smile at this uproarious fourth and final volume in Babson's Perkins & Tate series. Here the public relations team is called in to cap the bad press that is sure to follow when a dentist who attends to celebrity smiles finds a top model dead in his chair. Perkins & Tate slog on valiantly in aid of a dental practice that has gone bonkers. A hilarious cast of characters on the premises includes an inventor of a new anesthetic, a mad former Army dentist who believes that both World Wars are yet to be won and who, accordingly, gives orders to all and sundry, a sadistic driller who aims for the neck, and a waiting-room full of celebrities brought together by faculty grins and personal designs on the dentist. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Uncorr. Proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Uncorrected Proof. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Decked foreedge. Teal fabric covered, Very clean inside and out. Review from back cover, "There's a cast of characters worthy of a modern-day Shakespeare; bathetic descriptions of using the lavatory that would have had Beckett smiling; and the gods' playful pursuit of women that could be lifted straight from Ovid's The Art of Love. Banville, already esteemed for the brilliance of his language, proves in this novel to have a mastery, too, of these many colliding universes."
Hardcover. London, Sceptre, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnams, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set in limp black leather covers with bright gilt decoration. 394, 411 pages. Hildegarde Ed. with ribbon markers.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. Clean copy. Ghote comes to a cold and drizzling London for a international conference, but becomes involved in investigating the disappearance of a radiant niece.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small half inch chunk missing from rear dust jacketpanel at bottom edge, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor foxing on edges, otherwise, spotless and tight copy. The author's first novel - actually a novel within a novel - a "wryly funny and original novel for Everywoman who has ever asked herself "isn't there more to life than this?"
Softcover. London, Granta, 1st UK, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Free Press , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sherlock Holmes comes to South Central Los Angeles. Only he's black, never finished high school, and can't seem to hold on to a regular job. Instead Isaiah Quintabe- or IQ, as he is known - spends his time and uses his formidable intelligence to help others. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay. This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. The first book by this Japanese-American writer who grew up in the same kind of neighborhood as IQ, this was nominated for the Edgar for best first novel, for the Anthony Award, selected as one of the best books of the year by the NY Times and more. Clean copy.