Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, 180 pages. Dust jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. The story of a screenwriter in Hollywood who is out of control.
Hardcover. NY, First Second, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent his career cultivating. In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? Two-color art throughout by Brian "Box" Brown. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BRINK at 1998 Breadloaf Writer's Conference. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 396 pages. This book won the 1986 Prix Medicis Etranger prize. The book is a full-blooded comic epic about the relationship between a daughter and her larger-than-life father in the wilds of Alaska. Light remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st thus, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching volumes complete, green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. B&w illustrations by Frank Richards. Edited by George Saintsbury. Covers show edgewear, spines darkened.
Hardcover. London, Thomas McLean, 1st, 1819, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Volumes, red hardcovers with half calf leather bindings. Heavy foxing and moderate soiling to pages. Fifteen engravings from drawings in color. Marbled end papers. Light chipping on edges of cover boards. Tight copies.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's writing and name on front fly leaf and front end paper. Otherwise moderately clean on covers. Fading and splotching to spine. Illustrated by Arthur Becher.
Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 5th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages plus publishers ads in rear. Orange cloth with maroon design, lettering. Stated Fifth Printing on copyright page, no date but circa 1930. Mild fading to spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st Canadian, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BANKS on the half-title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st Canadian, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BANKS on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2015., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAGUIRE on the title page with a sketch of a rabbit in a teacup. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. SIGNED BY TREVOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Phil Broker is reunited with his estranged Delta Force superace wife, Nina , in Langdon, North Dakota, where borderland security is ineffective in stopping a smuggling operation across the easily penetratable Canadian border. Into the story, Nina is taken hostage by a sociopath with a plan to wreak havoc upon a large portion of the U. S. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Spanning from the end of the nineteenth century, when the colonizers carved up Africa, on through the tumultuous decades of revolt and suppression that followed, 'Afterlives' is an astonishingly moving portrait of survivors refusing to sacrifice their humanity to the violent forces that assail them." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Quinn Fawcett is the name used by Bill Fawcett and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Their first novel, featuring Sherlock Holmes's older brother Mycroft. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 412 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slight edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Mystery around the Lippizzaner horses of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.Clean copy.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 300 pages. Set against the backdrop of Italy between 1939 to 1944 - the months of anxiety before the country entered the war through to the tension following the Allied victory - "All Our Yesterdays" follows the lives of two families during the period of great turbulence and tells how the children grow into war and its aftermath. The boys flirt with revolution; Amalia marries a young German Jew; Concettina marries into a family that supports Mussolini; and Anna the youngest child, becomes pregnant when she is sixteen and is married off to Cenzo Rena, an eccentric family friend. War scatters them, but even war cannot break their bonds. All Our Yesterdays is about the endurance and resilience of people living through adolescence and early adulthood in a hostile world. Ex-lib with minor residue to rear endpaper and dust jacket taped to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound, accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Illustrated by Richard Krepel. Clean and bright. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.