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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1982.. Hardcover first edition -. VG/VG (appears unread, but some handling wear, also a publishing error resulted in the preliminary pages being cut improperly - does not affect text.). First printing. Includes photographs, bibliography and index. 490 pgs.

New York:: Clarkson Potter,, (1979.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.). First US printing. Subtitled "Articles, Essays, Letters, Anecdotes, Illustrations, Photographs, and Memorabilia about the Prophetic Genius of the Twentieth Century." While Wells was noted as a historian, educator, social philosopher, supporter of women's rights and much more, this is a book dedicated to documenting the life and times of Wells, the writer - the inventor - of science fiction and fantasy. Includes essays on Wells by Jorge Luis Borges and Basil Copper, critical reviews, articles on films based on Wells's fiction, three early pieces of fiction and prophecy by Wells, a parody, "The Island of Professor Menu," by James F. Sullivan, George Cruikshank drawings to Marvel comics covers, and much more. Foreword by Jack Williamson. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and reproductions of old newspapers and magazines on every… Read More

New York:: Henry Holt,, 1991.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. A Kinsey Milhone mystery, involving an insurance scam and the barrios of Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp.

New York:: Henry Holt,, 1991.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A Kinsey Milhone mystery, involving an insurance scam and the barrios of Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp.

New York:: Henry Holt,, 1991.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (previous owner's name blacked out on front endpaper, but otherwise tight and clean.).. First printing. A Kinsey Milhone mystery, involving an insurance scam and the barrios of Los Angeles. INSCRIBED on title page by the author. 256 pp.

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1991). Hardcover -. Near fine in a very good dustjacket.. Large print book club edition. A Kinsey Milhone mystery, involving an insurance scam and the barrios of Los Angeles. 432 pp.

New York:: Dutton,, 1946.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in illustrated boards in a very good dust jacket. (gift inscription, some edgewear to dj, original price of 3.00 still present). First printing. Story and music arrangements adapted from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta by Opal Wheeler. Includes 17 lyrics and sheet music, adapted for children, with full page color illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Large format. 96 pp. Illustrated endpapers. 

Philadelphia:: Lippincott,, 1973.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a good+ dustjacket (prev owner's stamp embossed on the front endpaper, some light signs of wear to the dustjacket at the ends of the spine and corner folds, closed tear at upper edge of front cover with associated creasing, but overall a tight and attractive copy of this uncommon book.). First US printing. The third book in the Aubrey - Maturin series, set in the Indian Ocean in the early 1800's. Striking wrap-around dustjacket painting by George Sottung.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1987). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The 4th novel featuring New York newspaper columnist and part time sleuth Julie Hayes, a complex story in which Julie matures a great deal. After her husband told her that he wanted a divorce, she left their apartment in anger and confusion. When walking by a construction site she is lured to a trailer and brutally raped by two men. This crime becomes intertwined with a trip to Ireland in search of the father she never knew. Dorothy Salisbury Davis was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 278 pp.

London:: Collins Crime Club, , (1996). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.. First printing. A collection of seventeen short stories, both entertaining and unexpected. In Victorian England a young woman marries and older man who soon dies from too much "s. bliss" and she does it again and again, Jane Eyre finds that Mr Rochester is driving her to murder and more. Like popcorn, if you read one of these stories, you will find yourself reading more. 190 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1999). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in pale green printed wrappers.. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) A Pacific Northwest mystery - the 4th featuring Venus Diamond, a US Fish and Wildlife Agent, who is inveFine in fine dust jacket.stigating an elite research center off the coast of Washington. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1985). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (slight hint of fading on the spine).. First printing. A book which includes a decade's worth of essays on literature, philosophy and the theory of language, Among the writers whose work he discusses are , Emerson, Joyce, Nabokov, Dickens, and Pound. 288 pp.

Woodbury, MN:: Midnight Ink,, (2017). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback. The fourth Tucker mystery, set in the Boston area. SIGNED on the title page. 351 pp.

New York:: AvonNova (Morrow), , (1994.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line on bottom edge, but otherwise appears unread.). First printing. SIGNED By Rudy Rucker on the title page. Set in California's Silicon Valley, this is a novel of 'plausible absurdity... an unorthodox tale of cyber conspiracy and virtual infestation.' 307 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1996.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Satiric novel of adventure, love and cutthroat journalism set in a backwater African country by a respected and experienced foreign correspondent. 287 pp.

New York:: Grove Press,, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. A collection of fifteen short stories, each inspired by the comments written on the back of postcards (the actual postcard is pictured at the beginning of each story.) SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp.

New York:: Grove Press,, (2004). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. A collection of fifteen short stories, each inspired by the comments written on the back of postcards (the actual postcard is pictured at the beginning of each story.) 367 pp.

New York:: Mysterious Press,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The story of America's first best-selling suspense novelist and playwright, from her years as a student nurse, as a World War I correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, her life as the wife as a doctor to a socialite with an oppulent lifestyle that even her income had trouble supporting. She went to Washington to champion the rights of the Blackfeet Indians, and she was one of the first to write candidly about her experiences with breast cancer. Photographs, bibliography. xii, 335 pp.

Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow Press,, 1981.. First edition -. Near fine in wrappers (soiling to bottom edge of text block.). First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with limited, signed hardcover. Poems inspired by the paintings in the paleothic caves near Dordogne,France.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1999.. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's first novel, set in a fictitous East Texas town dominated by the state penitentiary - the story of two boyfriends - Hadrian Coleman, a convicted murderer at age 15, and Sonny Hope, the prison director. "After 15 years, Hadrian kills yet again and then miraculously escapes confinement, he and Sonny start an entirely new sort of cat-and-mouse game: Sonny pardons him, Hadrian returns to Shepherdsville, and a chilling game of who-owes-what-to-whom ensues. Draper masterfully unveils the petty politics and small-town intrigue of a town dominated by a correctional facility. The book's greatest strength, however, is the fraught interplay between Hadrian and Sonny, who move as though caught in each other's orbit. It's Hadrian's story in the end, though, as he struggles to see if he's more than what Sonny has created--and more than he… Read More