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Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth. x, 264 pages. No dust jacket. Some wear and light soiling to binding. Contents clean and tight. Contributors include O. Henry, Katherine Anne Porter, J. Frank Dobie, and others.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth. 188 pages. Translated by John Petrie. Small ink dot to top edges. A solid copy with only light wear.

New York: Random House , 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge . Illustrated cloth. 403 pages. Foreword by Christopher Morley. Previous owner's name and date. A solid copy.

Birmingham, AL: Southern Living Gallery . Hardcover. Very Good. No date. Circa 1982. Full green leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. 366 pages. Illustrated. Blank Southern Classics bookplate. A clean copy with little wear. Southern Classics booklet laid in.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth with silver lettering. 312 pp. A clean, attractive copy. "In this sophisticated comic novel about action and nostalgia, memory and love, Patrick, a young editor at a glossy New York magazine, sets out in pursuit of the great adventure of his life only to find himself waylaid and ultimately sabotaged by the seductive, inescapable undercurrents of the past.

New York: Viking (2019). . First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 281 pages. Signed by the author. "Signed Copy" sticker. A clean, attractive copy.

Los Angeles: Bridge Publications (1998).. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarter cloth. x, 370 pp. Foreword by Dan Sherman. A clean, attractive copy. "...Naval Lieutenant Tom Smith discovers that his exact look-alike is the notorious South American revolutionary and spy, Pedrito Miraflores.

New York: William Morrow (2003).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xx, 426 pages. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by the author. Spine askew. A solid copy.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Alexander King. Cloth spine. 175 pages. Two color illustrations (slipcase and frontispiece) plus may sketches. Slipcase is worn. Minor wear to spine. Contents clean and tight.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth with silver spine lettering. 372 pp. Inscribed by the author. Previous owner's name, minor wear to edges of dust jacket. The price is intact.

New York: Simon & Schuster (1995).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Brown cloth spine with copper lettering. 235 pp. Small ink mark to bottem edges. A clean, attractive copy. "...Vernon has fashioned a classically American, true-grit saga of greed, dreams and delusions." - PW

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 403 pp. A solid copy with only light wear.

New York: The Viking Press (1966). . First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth spine. 182 pages. Price-clipped dust jacket has a couple of short tears.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. xvi, 328 pp. Signed by Wolf. A clean, attractive copy. "These first-person, eyewitness accounts offer glimpses of daily life: the farmers' struggles against large corporations; poetic meditations on life in the streets, on the road, and in prison; tall tales of river town saloons; and the social rituals of cooking, town hall and party phone lines across America's small towns.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1962).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. xxvii, 368 pp. Moderate wear to covers. Contents solid.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 274 pages. Signed by the author. A clean copy with only light wear. "...Wuori's real gift lies in his dark humor, oddball casting and ability to choreograph and perfectly capture those precise and often-camouflaged moments in a life when everything changes." - PW

New York: Appleton/Doran/Doubleday, Page/Scribner's, 1923. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth with paper labels. 414 pages. Author portraits. Index. No dust jacket. Spotting and moderate wear to binding, faint moisture stain to some pages. John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Train, V. Sackville-West, Harold Bell Wright, Booth Tarkington, Donald Ogden Stewart, Joseph C. Lincoln, Edith Wharton, Christopher Morley, others.

New York: HarperCollins (1990). . First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing with full number line and "First Edition" stated. Cloth spine. viii, 342 pages. Signed by the author. Small star stamp to bottom edges. A clean, attractive copy.

Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada (2004).. Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. 222 pages. A clean copy with only light wear.

New York: Atheneum, 1991. Soft cover. Very Good. Advance Reading Copy in paper covers. 311 pp. A nice copy with only very light wear. "British novelist Crace again proves himself an assured storyteller and master craftsman in his third novel, a sardonic, witty morality tale." - PW