HART, JOSEPHINE

Sin

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394223152. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 39348

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HART, JEROME

A Vigilante Girl

Chicago, IL: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1910. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by John W. Norton. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have noticeable toning. "Jerome Hart was publisher of the "Argonaut," the famed San Francisco weekly newspaper founded by Frank Pixley and Fred M. Somers. Pixley edited the newspaper until 1891 when Hart took over editorial responsibilities. Hart was about 23-years-old when Denis Kearney formed the Workingman's Party of California in 1877. Hart was in the National Guard of California at the time, and saw duty during the anti-Chinese riots that year. Hart, in this excerpt from his 1931 book "In Our Second Century," gives a good description of the social conditions that led to the formation of the party, but curiously does not mention that the chairman of the 1877 Committee of Safety was William Tell Coleman, founder and head of the 1856 Committee of Vigilance." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 46014

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HARTE, BRET

Condensed Novels

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by S. Eytinge Jr.. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy includes an inscription by the author on the front free page and a tipped in signature dated July 15, 1876. This is a second edition, with two additional stories not in the 1867 edition, with illustrations by S. Eytinge Jr. Following the previous edition with illustrations by Frank Bellew. This book is in Very Good condition. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The covers have some light rubbing and edge wear along with several tiny edge nicks. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a three inch tear starting at the bottom edge of the front endpaper and traveling upwards. There is some loosening to the inner spine hinges and the front spine hinge has cracking starting. Included are: Handsome is as Handsome does, Lothaw, Muck-a-Muck, Terence Denville, Selina Sedilia, The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen, The Dweller of the Threshold, The Haunted Man, Miss Mix, Guy Heavystone, Mr. Midshipman Breezy, John, Jenkins, and more. ; Signed by Author. Very Good .

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Book number: 44506

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HEINEMANN, LARRY

Paco's Story

New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374228477. Illustrated by Paul Bacon. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a strip of beginning sunning to the bottom edge of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some very light black ink from the book cover that has transfered. This is the second novel by the author of Close Quarters.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 46026

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HIGGINS, JACK (HARRY PATTERSON)

Touch the Devil

New York: Stein & Day, 1982. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0812828720. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean. There is some beginning edge wear and bumping to the spine ends. "" (from The Guardian Fri 30 Jul 2010). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 42973

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HIJUELOS, OSCAR

Empress of the Splendid Season

New York: Harper Flamingo, 1999. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Trade PB. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Oscar Jerome Hijuelos (August 24, 1951 – October 12, 2013) was an American novelist of Cuban descent. During a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language. He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy. For his second novel, adapted for the movie The Mambo Kings, he became the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 39854

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HOBAN, RUSSELL

Pilgermann

New York, NY: Summit Books, 1983. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671459686. Illustrated by Fred Marcellino. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, with the exception of some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends. Dust jacket art by Fred Marcellino. "Ridley Walker left me in a place where there was further action pending, and this further action was waiting for the element that would precipitate it inot the time and place of its own story. It was on May 15 and 16, 1980, that I saw, first in the evening, then in the night, then in the dawn, the ruined stronghold of Montfort in Galilee, built in the twelfth century by the knights of the Teutonic Order of Saint Mary and enlarged by them in the thirteenth century." "Russell Conwell Hoban (February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011) was an American expatriate writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books. He lived in London, England, from 1969 until his death..Hoban is often described as a fantasy writer, and only two of his novels, Turtle Diary and The Bat Tattoo, are entirely devoid of supernatural elements. However, the fantasy elements are usually presented as only moderately surprising developments in an otherwise realistic contemporary story, which is magic realism. Exceptions include Kleinzeit, a comic fantasy whose characters include Death, Hospital, and Underground; Riddley Walker, a science-fiction novel whose futuristic setting is primitive and post-apocalyptic; Pilgermann, a historical novel about the Crusades; and Fremder, a more conventional science-fiction novel." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46088

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HOBART, ALICE TISDALE

The Peacock Sheds His Tail

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 9997500725. Illustrated by Edgard Cirlin. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the half title page. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing and several edge tears, along with a couple of sizable chips missing from the spine end and flap joints. "Alice Tisdale Hobart has written a novel of international marriage, with the scene laid in Mexico." "Alice Tisdale Hobart (January 28, 1882 – March 14, 1967) born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York, was an American novelist. Her most famous book, Oil for the Lamps of China, which was also made into a film, drew heavily on her experiences as the wife of an American oil executive in China amid the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 46012

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Keywords: 9997500725 Modern Fiction First Editions Alice Tisdale Hobart Mexico Signed Editions Romance Edgard Cirlin

IRVING, JOHN

Last Night in Twisted River

New York: Random House, 2009. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0307398366. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 39723

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JONES, DOUGLAS C.

The Barefoot Brigade

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0030600413. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. There is some beginning fading to the spine of the book and a couple of tiny nicks to the edges of the dust jacket. "Douglas Clyde Jones (December 6, 1924 – August 30, 1998) was an American author of historical fiction, including alternative history fiction. As a boy, he had lived for a time in Fort Smith, Arkansas, adjacent to former Indian territory. Douglas Jones was born in Winslow, Arkansas. Following the divorce of his parents, he graduated from the Fayetteville, Arkansas high school in 1942 and was drafted into the army, where he served in the Pacific Theater. Following his discharge, Jones attended the University of Arkansas and obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1949. He subsequently returned to the army and served for another twenty years. In service, he obtained a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin. After retiring as a Lt. Colonel in 1968 after twenty-five years of service, Jones taught journalism at Wisconsin for six years. Jones wrote his first novel, The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer, which was soon turned into a television drama, based on the premise that Custer had survived the Battle of the Little Big Horn. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 40190

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JONES, JAMES

A Touch of Danger

New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002218313. Illustrated by Paul Bacon. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several tiny nicks to the top spine end and some beginning rubbing to the spine ends and corners.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 46009

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KENNEY, CHARLES

Hammurabi's Code

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671896970. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Charles Kenney was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for fifteen years. He is also the author of Code of Vengeance (formerly titled Hammurabi’s Code) and, most recently, The Last Man. He lives in Boston with his wife and two children." (from Penguin Books). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40809

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KINCAID, JAMAICA

Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394580354. Illustrated by Eric Fischl. Color Illustrations; 1st Trade edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket, but with a thin cardboard slipcase which is in Very Good condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The slipcase is mostly clean and bright, but there is a poke hole with torn paper to the bottom edge of the front panel. "This is a perfect place: I look out on a world prospering in greens, yellows, blues, reds, purple, delicate shades of lavender, whites, pinks, blacks, in unstilled streams, their banks constantly shifting, in things that lie perfectly still, in life that knows of no beginning and no end" (from the book). Near Fine .

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Book number: 43023

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Keywords: 0394580354 Modern Fiction First Editions Jamaica Kincaid Eric Fischl Modern Art Modern Fiction First Editions Women Women's fiction

KYNE, PETER B.

Cappy Ricks Retires

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1922. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by T. D. Skidmore. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The gilt lettering on the front cover and spine of the book has dulled and rubbed. The text pages are clean and bright. The three illustrations are all present and in Very Good condition. There is a previous owner's inked notation on the front endpaper, along with an ink stamped name. "Peter Bernhard Kyne (October 12, 1880 – November 25, 1957) was an American novelist who published between 1904 and 1940. He was born and died in San Francisco, California. Many of his works were adapted into screenplays starting during the silent film era, particularly his first novel, The Three Godfathers, which was published in 1913 and proved to be a huge success. More than 100 films were adapted from his works between 1914 and 1952, many of the earliest without consent or compensation. Kyne created the character of Cappy Ricks in a series of novels. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 42295

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Keywords: Modern Fiction First Editions Peter B. Kyne T. D. Skidmore Cappy Ricks Ships & Sailing

LAMB, HAROLD

Durandal

West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc, 1981. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0937986453. Illustrated by Alicia Austin & George Barr. B&W and Color Illustrations; This edition is limited to 400 deluxe unnumbered copies signed by both illustrators. This book is in Near Fine condition, has a Near Fine dust jacket, and a Near Fine slipcase. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. The slipcase is in clean, bright condition. "Unlike Lamb's Cossack stories, only a handful of his Crusader stories are inter-related. Two novelettes feature the young knight, Nial O'Gordon, and three short novels are centered around Sir Hugh of Taranto, who rediscovers the sword of Roland, Durandal. Durandal, published in 1931, reprinted all three novels of Sir Hugh with new linking material. Grant books' Durandal and The Sea of Ravens each reprint a single of these three novels. While Lamb's Crusaders sometimes battle against their traditional Muslim foes, the majority of these tales feature forays into deeper Asia. All of Lamb's Crusader stories have been collected in the 2009 Bison volume Swords from the West except for Durandal, The Sea of Ravens, and the forthcoming Rusudan, all from Donald M. Grant Co. Related stories with occasional Crusaders are collected in Swords from the Desert (Bison, 2009). " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Illustrator. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 43605

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Keywords: 0937986453 Modern Fiction First Edition Harold Lamb Alicia Austin George Barr Limited Editions Donald M. Grant Publisher Signed Edition Crusaders