New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good in Very Good- dj. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, top edge a little dust-darkened, top corners moderately bumped; jacket worn along top/bottom edges, various tiny tears, minor chipping at spine ends]. Satirical novel about a cave-dwelling hermit who takes a subscription to a weekly news magazine and eventually writes them a letter of appreciation, after which all hell breaks loose. . ... more information

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New York: William Morrow & Co.. Very Good. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a bit of exterior soiling, spine cloth slightly darkened, corners mildly bumped, spine a little turned, small ownership label on front pastedown blacked out, two small marks on fore-edge, otherwise inside nice and clean]. A madcap novel of romance, set in New York City. . ... more information

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New York: William Morrow & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear; jacket has a couple of tiny edge-nicks, minor wear at bottom corners]. A Cold War-era mystery with a radio background, featuring "Ed Tremont, lively young news editor of the Voice of America, in a story of intrigue and treachery laced with 100 proof wit." The plot revolves around one of the radio network's star commentators mysteriously taking ... more information

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New York: Dutton Children's Books. Fine in Fine dj. 2000 (c.1999). 1st U.S. ed. Hardcover. 0-525-46484-0 . [nice clean copy, virtually as-new; jacket has the faintest bit of wrinkling near top of front panel]. . ... more information

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New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good+. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, a couple of light spots on spine, minor soiling to top pages edges; internally clean, binding strong]. (B&W photographs) FDR's Secretary of the Interior tells of the accomplishments of the PWA (Public Works Administration) in its first two years. Part of the first wave of Roosevelt's New Deal programs, its initial two-year budget of $3.3 billion was distributed to more than 15,000 in... more information

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New York: Henry Holt and Company. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, top corners bumped, light soiling to page edges, previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket shows minor wear at several corners, chipping and slight paper loss at top of spine (no text affected), faint vertical crease in front flap]. The author's second novel, set on a small remote French colonial island. The story concerns a group of priests and their reaction, after their own church has been destroyed by a hurricane,... more information

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Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. 1932. 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [worn copy, cracked hinges, spine turned, spine cloth faded, water-stain at top right corner of front cover, etc.; should be considered a reading copy only]. "This is the story of Lina Aysgarth, who, after eight years, discovered that she was married to a murderer. It is not a shocker or a detective story, but a brilliant, disquieting, frightening study of a charming and thoroughly evil mu... more information

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New York: Coward-Mccann. Very Good in Fair dj. (c.1951). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, some soiling to top/bottom edges, shelfwear to bottom edge, old bookstore sticker on ffep; jacket browned, old tape repair/reinforcement along top/ bottom edges and corners, quarter-size chunk missing at upper left-hand corner of front panel, a little paper loss at base of spine]. A boy accompanies an Eskimo tribe on a hunting trip. . ... more information

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London: Skelton Robinson. Very Good. [1948]. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good solid copy, a little foxing on top edge, bumping & tiny tear in cloth at top of spine, slight browning of page edges, previous owner's name-stamp on ffep]. (B&W photographs) The author states that "the aim of [this book] is to become a platform for political expression for all parties on Home and Imperial Affairs." Included are articles by numerous Members on such topics as "Faith of... more information

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New York: Hyperion. (c.1993). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean unread copy; jacket shows the faintest trace of surface wear]. "In this mesmerizing account [the author] recreates the lost life of her childhood friend, Lee Snavely, a beautiful and talented young woman who wound up a drug addict, a prostitute, and the victim of a serial killer." . Fine in Near Fine dj. ... more information

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Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1999). First Edition. Hardcover. 0-8212-2625-8 . [book is tight, clean, as-new; jacket shows just a bit of surface handling wear]. (B&W/color photographs) "Published on the occasion of ICP's twenty-fifth anniversary, [this book] provides an innovative look at the diversity of the photographic medium. The selection displays great strength in documentary photography and photojournalism, as well as a marvelous range ... more information

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New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. (c.1961). Unstated edition. Hardcover. (pictorial covers, no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [moderate wear at extremities, occasional light pencil annotations in text]. (B&W photographs) The text of the play and all notes are in French, although there is a 25- page introduction in English, and an extensive French-English "Vocabulaire." . Very Good. ... more information

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Philadelphia/New York: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good. (c.1942). 3rd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [solid copy with moderate overall wear, some fading to spine cloth; ffep torn out, which has left the front hinge exposed but not separated]. Irish/Woolrich classic, which starts out with both a great dedication ("To Apartment 605, Hotel M----- / in unmitigated thankfulness (at not being in it any more") and a terrific first chapter title ("The Hundred and Fiftieth Da... more information

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New York: Walter J. Black. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1951). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. [light bumping to spine ends, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket shows moderate wear at edges and extremities, slight paper loss at top of spine (just nicking the first "S" in the title a bit), split along top rear foldover, front panel a little rubbed]. A New York detective who's supposed to be taking it easy, on vacation at "Joseph's Vineyard," runs into a murder case, in that ... more information

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New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1938). Unstated ed.. Hardcover. [good solid copy, moderate discoloration to both pastedowns, light spotting (foxing?) on fore-edge; jacket shows some wear at edges/corners, shallow chip at top left front panel, very minor paper loss at spine ends (no text affected), some soiling to rear panel]. The second "Patrick O'Brien" mystery, by the noted feminist/suffragette, best known for the "Maida Books" series of children's ... more information

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Ames IA: The Iowa State University Press. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. [moderate edgewear, light soiling to covers, letter "V" stamped on ffep]. Trade PB (facsimile magazine page reproductions) This series of articles "belongs properly in the mainstream of writings in American journalism history, but unfortunately it has not been generally available since its original publication as a weekly magazine series, [appearing in] fifteen successive issues beginning January 21, 1911. Althou... more information

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New York: Harpercollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2001). First Edition. Hardcover. 0-06-029529-5 . [nice tight copy, appears unread, agency label at bottom of ffep, no other markings; jacket shows light wrinkling at bottom of front panel]. "The great and glorious coastla city of MacOongafoondsen (population twenty-one) lies sheltered from the world. Some citizens, like Fierfl and Tailor and Miss Darkniss the Candle Maker, have never even seen the sea. Then a ship washes up with a lone surv... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1993. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0-679-42264-1 . [nice tight as-new copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket shows just a trace of surface wear, has one tiny nick at bottom rear corner]. Iyer, one of those travel writers-cum-essayists whose style transcends "travel writing," here takes the reader to "'the places that don't fit in,' places that in their psychic or geographical or political isolation become even strange... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1987). First Edition. Hardcover. 0-312-01038-9 . [solid copy, very slight wear to heel of spine, top rear corner bumped; jacket shows a little wear along top and bottom edges, a couple of tiny scrape marks on front panel, surface-scratching & rubbing to rear panel, spine a bit faded]. The Chicago author's first novel, which established him immediately as a modern master of the hard-boiled idiom. . ... more information

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