Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first Edwina Crusoe, R.N., medical mystery at the venerable Chelsea Memorial Hospitalin New Haven, CT. The heated custody battle between two couples over the true parentage of 10-year-old Hallie Dietz takes an unexpected turn when, minutes after the remarkable results of a tissue match are in, the lab technician and a teenage volunteer are shot and the records disappear.
Hardcover. New York, Leypoldt & Holt, 1st US, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Green cloth with title and cover decoration in gilt. 1.5" pencil point width mark at center of front cover (may be removed?), otherwise covers show very light wear. Previous owners name in pencil on inside front cover dated Sept. 7th, 1867. 1st English translation by Eugene Schuyler, Ph. D. . Bazarov--a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man--has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov's outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place across all of nineteenth-century Russia. Pages are bright with light to moderate foxing throughout. A clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 248 pages. The author's third book which deals with the protagonist coming to terms with having gone to Sweden to avoid being drafted to go to Viet Nam while his younger brother goes and is killed there. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Light blue cloth boards with red lettering on spine. The author's notorious first novel. "An absorbing, passionate novel exploring totally new territory: the story of a highly sexual intellectual woman, a writer, and the craziness and the misery of the war between the mind and the body". Mild soil to rear of dj otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Pantheon, ARC, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated wrappers, an advanced reading copy. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Finalist for the National Book Award.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in England as "Disposal of the Living".
Hardcover. New York, George Routledge and Sons, Reprint, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 269 pages. No date - circa 1880's. Gray cloth with decoration on spine and cover in black. Spine title on gilt background. Features 126 black & white illustrations by Riou. Tanning to preliminary, and rear pages. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked text.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. First publication ever! By the Edgar award-winning author of SONGS OF INNOCENCE and LITTLE GIRL LOST (written as "Richard Aleas")Told in 50 chapters, each chapter named after one of the first 50 books in the series.Featuring a full-color insert section containing images of the first 50 Hard Case Crime covers! Publishers Weekly on FIFTY-TO-ONE: "High-speed action and nonstop thrills highlight the 50th novel from Hard Case Crime...Ardai sets an impressive standard for the new wave of pulp crime fiction...Breathless action and entertaining characters make this a page-turner from start to finish. " Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Adding to a fiction chronicle that has already spanned American history from the Lincoln assassination to the Watergate scandal, Thomas Mallon now brings to life the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president in modern times. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with light chipping. This is a historical mystery novel about a police officer who is transported back in time to 1829 when the British police was first formed. Carr considered this one of his best impossible crime novels.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY DONALD WESTLAKE on title page. Bright, clean copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. 5th in the Thursday Next series. Promotional postcard laid-in. ("Tricks of the Trade Revealed" postcard #7 showing Fforde and his clones manically signing books.). Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st U.K., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 398 pages, several b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with bright, unclipped dust jacket, 286 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated covers. Illustrated in color. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 433 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY FORBES on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly worn dust jacket, 112 pages with 12 drawings by the author. Fit for a duchess, indeed, was the splendid up-to-date privy which the Budd family finally achieved, after generations of living with a noisome hut in the garden. But, as usually happens, there was a canker: the marvels of modern technology defeated them. Here splendidly remembered as in her previous books, Dust to Dust and A Prospect of Love, is this and more of life in southern England in the 1930s. Clean copy.