Silent Prey
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1992), 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 320 pp. Price of $21.95 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of the fourth book in Sandford's long-running series. More
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Billy The Kid; A Short And Violent Life
Lincoln, NE: University Of Nebraska Press [1989], 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 302 pp. Bound in ivory cloth with lettering stamped in gilt on the spine, black endpapers and pastedowns. Index, bibliography, numerous black and white illustrations, five maps. More
The Death of Artemio Cruz
London: Collins, 1964. First UK edition. Hardcover. 253 pp. Bound in textured orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 21s. net on front flap of jacket. Translated by Sam Hileman. Near Fine book in a Very Good lightly edge-worn dust jacket with a couple of very tiny... More
Olive Kitteridge
New York: Random House [2008], 2008. First printing. Hardcover. 270 pp. Off-white paper covered boards quarter bound in tan paper with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A very attractive copy of Strout's third novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. More
Paris Trout
New York: Random House (1988), 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 306 pp. Black paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with bronze-colored foil lettering on spine and two bronze-colored horizontal bars stamped on the front board. Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A sharp copy of Dexter's... More
The Bloody Ground
London: Harpercollins (1996), 1996. First printing. Hardcover. 343 pp. Unpriced dust jacket (presumably an export edition). The Starbuck Chronicles Volume Four. Near Fine with age toning to the textblock in a very near Fine dust jacket. More
Sharpe's Devil; Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821
London: HarperCollins Publishers (1992), 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. Blue textured paper over boards with gold lettering on the spine. Very Good with slight lean and a remainder mark to the bottom textblock in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. More
The Man Who Won the Battle of Britain
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1970), 1970. First American edition. Hardcover. 291 pp. Bound in grey cloth with gold lettering on the the spine. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first American edition, published in England as Dowding and the Battle of Britain. Enser... More
Some Horses; Essays
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press [2013], 2013. Second edition. Hardcover. 197 pp. Price of $25.00 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the second edition with a new preface by the author. Signed by the author on the free front endpaper. More
The Spring Voyage; The Jerusalem Pilgrimage in 1458
New York: Clarkson N. Potter [1965], 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. 207 pp. Bound in light blue cloth with red lettering on the spine, blue topstain. Price of $4.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated color title page on high-gloss stock (extends across two pages), two page map on green... More
In Grandpa's House; Translated and Adapted by Seymour Barofsky
New York: Harper & Row [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 42 pp. Bound in dark grey cloth with small decoration in gilt on the front board and gold lettering on the spine, light green endpapers and pastedowns. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. irst printing of the first edition. Hanrahan A125. Very... More
The Brutal Telling
New York: Minotaur Books (2009), 2009. First American edition. Hardcover. 372 pp. Bound in maroon cloth with bronze-colored foil lettering on the spine. Price of $24.99 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first American edition. A very attractive copy of the author's fifth novel and the... More
Farrier's Lane; A Victorian Mystery Featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
New York: Fawcett Columbine (1993), 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 374 pp. Black paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $20.00 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Near Fine book with a couple very slight bumps to the... More
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
New York: W W Norton & Co (1983), 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 413 pp. Price of $15.50 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first edition. Very Good with age-darkening to the textblock and and light wear to the extremities in a Very Good dust jacket with... More
Gilead
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (2004), 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 247 pp. Pale yellow paper-covered boards quarter bound in beige cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $23.00 on front jacket flap. A sharp copy of Robinson's second novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. More
The Serpent on the Crown
New York: William Morrow (2005), 2005. First printing. Hardcover. 350 pp. Green paper-covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, map endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $25.95 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of this Amelia Peabody mystery. More
Being A Green Mother; Book Five: Incarnations of Immortality
New York: Ballantine Books (1987), 1987. First printing. Hardcover. 313 pp. Pink paper-covered boards quarter bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
Strong Motion
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (1992), 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 508 pp. Price of $22.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A nice copy of Franzen's second novel. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a few traces of edge wear and a crease to the rear flap. More
Drawing Blood
New York: Delacorte (1993), 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 373 pp. Dark blue paper-covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first edition. A nice copy of Brite's second novel. More
The American Night; The Writings of Jim Morrison Volume II
New York: Villard Books, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 211 pp. Black paper-covered boards quarter bound in teal cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first edition. More
Mystery of Crocodile Island
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. 180 pp. The fifty-fifth book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. Farah 1978A-1. This is the second of two cover variants mentioned by Farah (brownish-green background). More
A History of Astronomy
New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc., 1961. First American edition. Hardcover. 521 pp. 12 plates. A survey of the history of astronomy from ancient times up through the early decades of the twentieth century. Very Good with scattered foxing to the textblock, toning to the endpapers and pastedowns, and offsetting to... More
The Sculptress
New York: St. Martin's Press (1993), 1993. First American edition. Hardcover. 308 pp. Price of $21.95 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first American edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A sharp copy of Walters' second novel, winner of the Edgar Award. More
The Good Lord Bird
New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 417 pp. Orange-brown paper-covered boards quarter bound in dark orange cloth with a feather stamped in black on the front board and black lettering on the spine. Price of $27.95 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition. Winner of... More