Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unusual work in that Gallico wrote this not as a sequel to his book THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE but rather as a sequel to the film version. The film featured some plot and character changes which Gallico incorporates into this novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, First Edition, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with embossed art nouveau design, light green ink & gilt titles. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Light foxing to a couple interior pages, and last illustration. Otherwise light toning to edges, clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 184 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. A novel of "wartime love and death" in the London of 1917. In the heroine Julia Ashton, Doolittle creates a vibrantly sensitive character through the evocation of her feelings, moods and memories. Previous bookseller's price sticker on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When their two-million-dollar Japanese smuggling assignment hits a snag, professional gunrunners Altmeyer and his wife, Rachel, risk nuclear disaster to complete their task. 248 pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages. Clean copy. The second novel in the L.A. Quartet from this master of noir that began with The Black Dahlia, followed by this second novel, then L.A. Confidential, and finally White Jazz. The Red Scare is in full bloom in the Los Angeles of 1950 in this dark tale of three men caught up in a massive web of ambition and deceit.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury , 1st US, 2002-07-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 278 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 B&W cartoon illustrations by Dick Dorgan. Illustrated cardboard covers. Small tear to spine edge, otherwise Very good.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction--and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is.When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together--but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people...including the President of the United States? Like new.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 180 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. Exposing the humor in violence and the seamy side of riches, Canning follows the maneuvers of Sir Anthony Swale, an aristocrat who has spent his privileged life in quest of rare art treasures, many of them from behind the Iron Curtain. Small inials on front pastedown otherwise clean in a bright unclipped dust jscket.
Hardcover. NY, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to bright dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Slight creases to pages 239-241. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. U. S. O. stamp inside front and back covers. Remnants of label on back end papers. Black cloth covers with green lettering on front and spine. Some white spots on covers. Clean. Scarce. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife, and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American Indian activists disappear, Robicheaux's dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests, but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse, his ex-partner's girlfriend. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Archaia, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color comics throughout by Fincher/Hyman. Clean, tight copy with minor if any wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Crime Club/Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages, orange cloth covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, small soil smudge to rear cover. Otherwise, very good.
London , Collins, reprint , 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 255 pages. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Soiling, edgewear to dust jacket. Being the life story of Ralph Rudd, his early adventures, perils and misfortunes on land and sea, including sundry close encounters with high-jacking, mutiny and violence off the African Slave Coast.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mauve boards with yellow lettering, maroon cloth spine. 321 pages with a (2) on last page indicating second printing. Quite scarce. Top corner of cover bumped.