Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 502 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Hall's first book to be published in the United States, this is a massive novel set in a tiny community of old people in outback Australia (Whitey's Fall, pop. 49.) Miles Franklin Award Winner (Australia's highest literary honor).
Softcover. New York, Popular LIbrary, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Popular Library Eagle Book #EB96. Spine edge tanned. Ink notation on first page. Creasing to cover wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. Beige cloth spine with red-colored lettering. Dust jacket with clear plastic cover. Binding slightly wrinkled at top. First edition of this large adventure novel by the author of the Dortmunder series of humorous crime stories.
Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with orange cloth spine, paper spine label chipped. First printing with Doran logo on copyright page. With a preface by Hilaire Belloc, 333 pages. "Bramah attained commercial and critical success with his creation of Kai Lung, an itinerant storyteller. He first appears in The Wallet of Kai Lung which was rejected by eight publishers before Grant Richards published it in 1900. It was still in print a hundred years later. The Kai Lung stories are humorous tales set in China, often with fantasy elements such as dragons and gods." Covers rubbed, edgeworn. Clean internally.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages, hardcover with like new, bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Glens Falls, Champlain Publishing, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Blue cloth covers with title rubbed from spine and some rubbing to gilt title on cover. Book has slight damp smell. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Despite the disapproval of her mother and three sisters, Katie Thorne persists in her search for a husband, approaching her goal along an open road of initially promising but ultimately unsuitable candidates
Hardcover. Alpharetta GA, Black & White Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, also INSCRIBED by him on dedication page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Co, 2nd Ed., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with 3-color decoration. Four Illustrations in color by W. Herbert Dunton. Illustrated end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the start a young man who finds himself at the wrong end of the system, a system he will never beat, one that he suddenly finds himself at the end of a noose for rape and murder. Set at the Time of Crecy, young Martin finds himself going from a life of routine drudgery to one where his life depends on those around him a soldier in the Kings army.
Softcover. Evanston, Triquarterly Books, First Thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Bright cover with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st Thus, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Limited Editions Club. SIGNED AND HAND NUMBERED BY ILLUSTRATOR HANS ALEXANDER MUELLER ON LAST PAGE - THIS BEING #1472 OF 1500. Bound in rust colored cloth. Title in silver on black leather on spine. Slipcase slightly age darkened, with pea size chip missing from top left corner. A clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages, with drawings by Annie Newnham and an introduction by Frank Delaney, blue slipcase and pictorial cover on blue cloth board.
Softcover. New York, Dagger House, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Paperback. Red Dagger Mystery #25. Crease to front cover. Light wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and Black/white comics. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Bloomsbury, uncorrected proof, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, number 153 of 300 limited edition. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. Formerly a Marine sniper in Vietnam, the man known professionally as Quarry has spent the past decade killing for money, first in the service of an agent called the Broker, and then as a freelance hitman. But he's always been on the right side of those contract kills--until now It seems someone has taken out a contract on Quarry himself. But who? And why? And how does a mysterious figure from his past figure in? Quarry will find the answer--or die trying. Since his first appearance in 1976, Quarry has been the star of a Cinemax TV series, a graphic novel (Quarry's War), and a dozen other novels. But he's never faced an assignment deadlier or more personal than this... Like new.
Hardcover. NY, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover Limited edition (No. 1075 of 1500 copies). Signed by the illustrator on the Limitation Page. Quarter bound in publisher's brown leather over gilt embossed khaki boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt mystic maze decoration on covers. Illustrated with 16 full-page, full-color plates (including two double-page spreads) hand-colored by Frank Hudec, as well as in-text drawings, historiated initials, and head and tail-pieces by Robin Jacques. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Slipcase with light wear, soil. Book very good with a mild misty odor.