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STEAL AWAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - "Randall is glib, handsome and crooked. But he has a code of honor. Although he sold cars and real estate for a living before, with moving up to burglary there are a few things he won't do for money." 293 pp. ISBN: 1569470677.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68968More details Price: $16.50 -
THE END OF THE BATTLE.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The last novel in Waugh's World War II trilogy, Men at War - opening with Guy Crouchback returning from war to hear the words "Sorry, Uncle, you're too old." His commando training gets him one last assignment - liason work with the partisans in Yugoslavia. Synopsis of the previous volumes. xiv, 319 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, sunning to spine.).
Book ID: 55664More details Price: $50.00 -
THE LOVED ONE.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Dell, (1965.). A very funny satire on "certain aspects of Hollywood life" - and death. Movie tie-in edition. Vintage paperback with cover price of 50c. 191 pp.
Condition: Very good (prev owner's name inside front cover.)
Book ID: 48237More details Price: $10.00 -
CHARLES RYDER'S SCHOOLDAYS and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains eleven satirical short stories originally published in a limited edition in 1936 and the first book publication of the recently discovered title sketch about the early life of the hero of 'Brideshead Revisited.' 292 pp. ISBN: 0-316926396.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (some wear to the top of the spine of the dj, and the corner fold)
Book ID: 85440More details Price: $50.00 -
BLACK MISCHIEF.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good overall in green cloth (with the usual uneven mottling and fading) in a very worn copy of the fragile and rather brittle dust jacket, which is missing about 2 inches at the top of the dj spine, is separated along the side of the spine and mostly separated at the flap folds, and with toning and overall edgewear. Original price of $2.50 on front flap - and copies in the dust jacket are quite uncommon.
Book ID: 87972More details Price: $300.00 -
THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD: A Conversation Piece.
Edition: Reprint.
Boston: Little Brown, (1979., c 1957) dj. Hardcover - An often hilarious "and occasionally bloodcurdling" novel about Gilbert Pinfold's brief period of "hallucination" or insanity "elaborated" from an experience that Waugh himself had several years before. One of several titles reissued by Little Brown in 1977-79 in uniform binding with dust jacket illustrations by John Renfer. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-316-926248.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 63819More details Price: $15.00 -
MURDER ON SAFARI.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987). dj. Hardcover first edition - Murder mystery set against the backdrop of a bird-watching safari in Kenya. ISBN: 0-396-090613.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (prev owner's name stamped on front endpaper, otherwise a tight and clean copy.)
Book ID: 28412More details Price: $18.00 -
SAM BELL MAXEY AND THE CONFEDERATE INDIANS.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press / McMurray University, (1998). First edition - A title in the Civil War Campaigns and Commanders series. "General Maxey. . . arrived in Indian Territory in 1863 to assume command of a diverse and motley army of Indians. The troops are in disarray; they are suspicious of tribal alliances, weakened from malnutrition, their crops have been pillaged, and they are discouraged by a series of battlefield setbacks at the hands of the Union Army invading from Kansas." Maps, photographs. Suggestions for further reading. Index. Label showing the publisher as the McWhiney Foundation have been pasted over the orginal publication information. 100 pp. ISBN: 1886661030.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78073More details Price: $18.00 -
FIGHTING DR. DIANA.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Avalon Books, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon title in the Avalon Nurse Stories series (although in this case, the protagonist is a doctor and not a nurse), set in Florida near Cape Canaveral. 192 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, pocket removed from front endpaper, in a very good unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 70420More details Price: $15.00 -
DOROTHY DIXON SOLVES THE CONWAY CASE #3.
Edition: Early printing.
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1933.) dj. Hardcover - One of a series of books featuring teenage aviatrix Dorothy Dixon. Although these books were supposedly written by Noel Sainsbury's wife Dorothy, he was actually the author - and Bill Bolton, the character from one of Sainsbury's series, makes an appearance in each of these books. 252 pp.
Condition: Good in orange cloth with black lettering in a good only dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, edgewear and chipping to the dj)
Book ID: 70698More details Price: $14.50 -
DOROTHY DIXON AND THE MYSTERY PLANE #2.
Edition: Early printing.
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1933.). Hardcover - Second book in this series featuring teenage aviatrix Dorothy Dixon. In this one, she has obtained her pilot's license and has her own plane - an amphibian. Although these books were supposedly written by Noel Sainsbury's wife Dorothy, he was actually the author - and Bill Bolton, the character from one of his series, makes an appearance in each of these books. 251 pp.
Condition: Good condition in blue cloth with black lettering (usual toning to the pages, corners slightly bumped), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 68354More details Price: $12.50 -
DOROTHY DIXON WINS HER WINGS #1.
Edition: Early printing.
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1933.). Hardcover - First book in this series featuring teenage aviatrix Dorothy Dixon. The young aviator Bill Bolton and his father are neighbors now of Dorothy and her father, and after Bill rescues her when he sailboat capsizes, he agrees to give her flying lessons. In addition to learning to fly, Bill and Dorothy track down a gang of bank robbers. Although these books were supposedly written by Noel Sainsbury's wife Dorothy, he was actually the author who "made Bill Bolton famous" as the main character from another one of his series. Comment in this book that Dorothy was named for Sainsbury's wife. 249 pp.plus 3 pp publisher's ads .
Condition: Good condition in tan tweed patterned boards with black lettering (usual toning to the pages, corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 76057More details Price: $12.50 -
CHANGE THE WORLD FOR TEN BUCKS: Small Actions X Lots of People = Big Change.
Edition: First US printing (trade paperback.)
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2009.). First edition - Full of very practical and simple suggestions to make the world a better place for all -48 of them are given a full page, illustrated with photographs or drawings, in full color, and then many more ideas are listed at the back. Originally published as 'Change the World for a Fiver." Square format. ISBN: 0-8118-6801X.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44864More details Price: $10.00 -
GONE TO THE CRAZIES: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HC - Harper Collins, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an "amazingly sane" account of survival of both her drug addiction and her two years at a school designed to brainwash it out of her. 245 pp. ISBN: 9780061189586.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51148More details Price: $18.00 -
MIDLIFE MUSINGS Plus Sundry Sonnets From the Porch.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page 'For the Scruggs Girls.' Very good in stiff illustrated covers.
Book ID: 30909More details Price: $12.00 -
SPEAKING OF THE GIRLS. . .
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page 'For the Scruggs Girls.' Good in stiff illustrated covers (some dampstaining to back cover near spine, crinkling of pages.)
Book ID: 30910More details Price: $12.50 -
VIOLET VICTORIA.
Edition: First printing.
Colorado Springs, CO: Faith Kids / Cook Communications Ministries, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A rhyming story about friendship for young children, illustrated in full color by Tony Kenyon. INSCRIBED by the author. Large format, 32 pp. ISBN: 0-78143520X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 84329More details Price: $17.50 -
THE BROWNSVILLE RAID.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88717More details Price: $19.50 -
DECEPTIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a thriller. 454 pp. ISBN: 0-446-517496.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (embossed seal of prev owner.)
Book ID: 47022More details Price: $12.50 -
WATER SONG
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. SIGNED first edition - His first book, a collection of poetry and the fifth title in the Callaloo Poetry Series published by the University of Kentucky (this copy has a University Press of Virginia sticker pasted over the original publication information.). ISBN: 0-912759-054.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the half title page to a well-known poet and dated in 1990. Near fine in printed blue wrappers.
Book ID: 24406More details Price: $45.00 -
MY FATHER'S GEOGRAPHY
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1992. ). First edition - African American writer's third collection of poetry, A title in the Pitt Poetry series. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-8229-54699.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (peeled spot from sticker removal on back cover.)
Book ID: 40199More details Price: $12.00 -
RED EARTH, WHITE EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Years after Guy Phersson left Minnesota and became a sucessful entrepreneur in California's Silicon Valley, he gets a letter from his grandfather saying "come now. Trouble." A coming of age story set in Minnesota's farm country in the 1950s, a look at who owns the land, and Indian rights, and a book about learning to be able to become fully human. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-671619772.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 72898More details Price: $15.00 -
MYTH AND HISTORY IN CARIBBEAN FICTION: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant.
Edition: First printing.
Amherst: University of Massachutts Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comparative study of three major Caribbean novelists: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant. "Despite differences of language and background, these writers from Cuba, Guyana and Martinique have much in common. Each has written extensively on the shared heritage of the peoples of the Caribbean and each has been influential in redefining the novel in the context of New World culture." Notes, selected bibliography, index. x, 185 pp. ISBN: 0-870237845.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 87851More details Price: $50.00 -
BEATRICE WEBB.
Edition: First printing.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - According to the preface, this is not a comprehensive biography of Webb, but a brief account, "of the life and times of the greatest woman I have ever known, set down by one who had the privilege of being her friend and her fellow-worker within the Fabian Society.) Illustrated with 8 full page photographs, includes an index. 197 pp,
Condition: Near finein turquoise cloth (after allowing for wartime production standards) in a fair only dust jacket with chipping and short closed tears to the edges.
Book ID: 82273More details Price: $21.50 -
BEATRICE WEBB.
Edition: First printing.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1945. Hardcover first edition - According to the preface, this is not a comprehensive biography of Webb, but a brief account, "of the life and times of the greatest woman I have ever known, set down by one who had the privilege of being her friend and her fellow-worker within the Fabian Society.) Illustrated with 8 full page photographs, includes an index. 197 pp
Condition: Very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, no dj. (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 31088More details Price: $12.50 -
DESERT RAGE: A Lena Jones Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery set in Arizona, featuring private investigator Lena Jones. SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 978-1464203107.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 69219More details Price: $25.00 -
DESERT WIVES: A Lena Jones Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring private investigator Lena Jones, who helps thirteen year old Rebecca escape from Purity, a polygamy compound in a desolate area straddling the Utah - Arizona border. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note 300 pp. ISBN: 1-590580303.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69229More details Price: $25.00 -
DESERT NOIR: A Lena Jones Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery introducing Scottsdale private investigator Lena Jones, a survivor of dozens of foster homes, who becomes involved in investigating the murder of a gallery owner. SIGNED on the title page. 252 pp. ISBN: 1-590580303.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69355More details Price: $25.00 -
LOVE, ROGER.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - Second novel by the author of the bestselling and controversial 'The Graduate' - a story which continues his comedy of the absurd, and his focus on the inanities and emptiness of modern life. Frontispiece art and dust jacket illustration by Tomi Ungerer.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39783More details Price: $12.50 -
LOVE, ROGER.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - Second novel by the author of the bestselling and controversial 'The Graduate' - a story which continues his comedy of the absurd, and his focus on the inanities and emptiness of modern life. Frontispiece art and dust jacket illustration by Tomi Ungerer.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (chipping at top of dj spine.)
Book ID: 47476More details Price: $12.50