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TENTHRAGON by CONSTANCE SAVERY - 1930
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NEW YORK: ALFRED H. KING, 1930 NICE LOOKING LIGHT OLIVE GREEN COVER, GOOD PLUS SHAPE, SLIGHT FADING, SOME VERY SMALL SPOTTING COVER. CLEAN INSIDE, NO INTERNAL MARKS, RARE FIRST NOVEL. BOY'S DREAMS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN A HOME PARTITIONED BY DOORS, LIVING WITH 2 BROTHERS, ONE CALLED DRAGON BECAUSE OF ACTIONS. Constance Winifred Savery was born in Wiltshire on October 31, 1897, the eldest daughter of the Vicar of Froxfield, John Manley Savery, and his wife, Constance Eleanor Harbord Savery. In her first book, Forbidden Doors (1929), she overreached herself according to THE TIMES (London), and the book's revision as Tenthragon in America a year later didn't suit the NEW YORK TIMES for the same reason. It was a long time before she again attempted a full-length book for an adult audience, but her books for children were successful from the beginning. Forbidden Doors is a book about a child, but not a children's book. "Not quite seven" Patric is taken from a foster home to live with his stern cousin Brendon Tenthragon, who attempts to be kind, but is unused to children. Thragoness, Brendon's gothic residence, is divided into halves by the title's forbidden doors through which Patric passes into Other Thragoness where he is psychologically abused by Brendon's brother Hugh, himself a physical and emotional cripple. Both THE TIMES of London and the NEW YORK TIMES agreed that the author had bitten off more than she could chew. Nevertheless, there are harbingers of her later books in the character development and in her use of twins (and triplets), a tendency that recurred throughout Savery's career. The PUNCH review of Jan. 22, 1930, ended on a hopeful note: Her characters.are live things of their own particular world--the no man's land that lies between Fiction and Fairy Story. Forbidden Doors interested me and nearly made my flesh creep. A VERY CONTROVERSIAL BOOK BY AN INTRIGUING AUTHOR. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
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Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man (signed 1st)
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Five Star Waterville, Maine, 2006 HBDJ, August 2006, stated 1st edition, NF+/VG+, This book is very good +condition except for minor shelf wear.287 pgs,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business on Larchmont Boulevard in Hollywood and into the mystery writing profession at the WRITERS AND ARTISTS BUILDING in Beverly Hills, where he intends to follow in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Night is persistently plagued by former clients who won't let him get past the title page of his potential Edgar Award mystery novel The Big Changeover. After too many false starts and near fatal distractions, Night finds himself on the treacherous trail of two missing objects. The first: an Imperial Fabergi Egg, The Tear of Russia, given by William Randolph Hearst over a half century ago to his mistress - --a Fabergi now valued at over ten million dollars. The second: his missing fianci, the beautiful Goldie Rose. It's soon evident that Goldie has been kidnapped, but by whom - and…
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Mystery of the Pirate's Ghost, A family Inheirts an Old House in on Pingree Point in Boston Massachusetts that was once used by Privateers.
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Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. B/W FRONTISPIECE, HBDJ, 1966, STATED 1st edition , NEAR FINE in a Near Fine- , First PRINTING. In Lippincott library binding in Beautiful green, Blue & white of boy & girl on Beach, NOT a library discard. Top edge of book pg green & lightly spotted, edges of DJa bit age darkened EVER SO SLIGHTLY. ,While exploring the children find some long lost doubloons and help put a pirate's ghost to rest, but not before almost becoming ghosts themselves. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Joe and Beth Krush.
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Five Star Waterville, Maine, 2006 HBDJ, August 2006, stated 1st edition, NF+/VG+, This book is very good +condition except for minor shelf wear.287 pgs,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business on Larchmont Boulevard in Hollywood and into the mystery writing profession at the WRITERS AND ARTISTS BUILDING in Beverly Hills, where he intends to follow in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Night is persistently plagued by former clients who won't let him get past the title page of his potential Edgar Award mystery novel The Big Changeover. After too many false starts and near fatal distractions, Night finds himself on the treacherous trail of two missing objects. The first: an Imperial Fabergi Egg, The Tear of Russia, given by William Randolph Hearst over a half century ago to his mistress - --a Fabergi now valued at over ten million dollars. The second: his missing fianci, the beautiful Goldie Rose. It's soon evident that Goldie has been kidnapped, but by whom - and…
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TENTHRAGON
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New York: Alfred H. King, 1930. First US edition. Very good plus.. Rare first printing of the US edition, revised from the English edition and the author's preferred version of perhaps the greatest children's gothic. TENTHRAGON ranks with the best of Joan Aiken and John Bellairs. Such was its ambition that it perplexed as many contemporaries as it attracted; THE OBSERVER called it an "odd, unusual novel," while Punch questioned whether it could properly be called a novel at all. Savery's later works for children, less strange and consequently more successful, burst with adventure, good spirits, and explicitly Christian virtues; her most notable work for adults, a book-length continuation of Charlotte Brontë's unfinished fragment EMMA, is ambitious, but an ambitious pastiche. TENTHRAGON stands alone in a strange place: the greatest children's gothic, but not quite a children's book, only a book about a child. Among Savery's unpublished manuscripts is the curious CHARLES OF DOLOROUS GARD, described…
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Godshot (SIGNED) (FIRST)
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2020 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - SIGNED by author on the title page - "Godshot is the kind of book you find yourself thinking about incessantly." - Kristen Arnett - book: near fine - dj: near fine - dj in protective mylar sleeve"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with…
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New York: Pocket Book edition, 1966, 20th printing. Pocket Book 50447. Vintage pulp fiction paperback, x, [2], 194pp., advert., cover price 50 cents.. Very Good Condition with bright cover page. Slight cover and spine creasing. There are bumped corners, and signs of shelf wear, top right corner of cover with slight crease and lower edges of cover worn. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Kill Petrosino!
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London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1st Edition, 1975 ----------hardcover, with dust jacket. The book, in black boards with orange lettering and design to the spine, is an unblemished near fine copy. The unclipped jacket has light wear to the front panel top edge and spine extremities, and is almost near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.
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Dolores Claiborne
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First Edition. (1993) Hardcover with d.j. Fine with near fine dust jacket. D.J. has slight curl on top edge and light rubbing on back. No worn edges. Tight binding with clean, sharp pages. No markings. 305 pages. Dolores Claiborne is a psychological thriller novel. The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus the text is a single continuous narrative which reads like the transcription of a spoken monologue. This book is dedicated to King's mother: "For my mother, Ruth Pillsbury King."
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Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce) | Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The | Signed First Edition Copy
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A Is For Alibi
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1982. Fine. Book Club Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. D.j. is near fine with slight wear on top binding edge. Inside flap d.j has slight creases. Cover is smooth, unblemished, no tears, nicks or worn corners. Hardcover, as new, black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tight binding, sharp, clean pages. No markings. (Actual photo) A flawless copy. 208 pages. "A" Is for Alibi is crime writer Sue Grafton's first mystery novel in the Kinsey Millhone "Alphabet mystery" series, first published in 1982.
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The Seven Dials Mystery (A Midnite Mystery)
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The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".
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Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.
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Collins White Circle Pocket Edition #228. Great 1940s cover! Colonel Anthony Gethryn must prove a man innocent of a murder he's been convicted for in only 5 days. MacDonald was a great practitioner of the mystery-suspense genre; his books remain readable, even if his characters are nowhere near as enlightened as we tend to be today. Please read this volume in its historical context. A very clean copy, spine slightly darkened with very faint reading crease: see photos.
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New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. Near Fine in Very Good jacket Remainder A Dave Robicheaux mystery, Edgar Award winner npc, 290pp. rem po inscription on front pastedown, behind dj flap. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Remainder. First Edition
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