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Scribner, New York. Fist Edition proper number line. 1998 NF/VG+ Original pumpkin colored boards. Gilt titles on spine are in immaculate like new condition. Highly collectable in this condition. Book appears unread. Tight, clean, no markings whatsoever. No bookplates, stickers etc. Dust jacket has very light staining to the upper back cover. No staining came through onto the back of book. Looks like a little coffee spilled on the back - interestingly coincides with the artwork on the front and back of the cover with the mystical reflection of the trees on the lake! Character Mike Noonan is a best selling novelist unable to accept the death of his wife 4 years earlier . He re-visits a house named Sarah Laughs to confront the past and present. While there he begins to fall in love with a young widowed woman and her daughter. A gripping novel about love lost and gained that will captivate you until the last page.

New York: Viking Press, 1961 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/VG, Same date, although stated third printing. Grey boards in near fine condition, with only slight fading at spine. No bumping or edge wear. Rare DJ has price of $4.50. Front of DJ is original bright green in color with drawing of farm house and trees and also a will laid face down. The spine of the DJ is faded and slightly bumped at edges, one tiny tear at bottom edge of spine. PO's stamp W.A. Phipps (from San Francisco) is on second page. **Great use of flashbacks. China Court begins with Mrs. Quin on her death bed. She knows all 5 generations of her family that lived in England at a family home called China Court. the story has nothing to do with China or royalty, but instead is connected to the nearby China Clay works that were the source of the family's fortune. Godden weaves faith into her stories without sounding moralistic. .

Father Melancholy's DaughterWilliam & Morrow1991Stated FIRST

1995 Harcourt Brace . First English Translated Edition, Stated first U.S. edition with the number line ABCDE. NF/NF Blue boards with gold gilt titles on spine. Tight, clean, no foxing, one small black dot on the bottom, no bookplates. Beautiful DJ ~ art work is detail of fresco from Sala del Mappamondo at the Palazzo Farnese by Zucarro Taddeo. DJ is NF condition with price of $25.00- a wee bit of shelf wear along the edges. In this fascinating, lyrical tale, Umberto Eco tells of an international race to establish the Punto Fijo; of a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and of a most amazing old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood.

Little Brown and Company, Boston 1942. VG/none Red hard boards with black titles to front and spine. some fading to spine, light soiling and shelf wear. Same date on title page. Stated First Edition, April 1942.

The Night Manager By John Le Carre
NF / VG
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
1993

Beautiful, unread copy
Le Carre's first Cold War novel, detailing an undercover operation to bring down a major international arms dealer.

Messner, New York
NF Boards, VG Dust jacket
Not price clipped. Price of $3.50
NF dark grayish green boards. No dings, no bumping, clean, no marks, no p o's, no book plates, no stickers. Tight bindings.
DJ is in very good condition. Shelf wear, tiny tears along all edges.
Great B&W photo of the author on back sitting at a table in jeans and tennies with her feet propped up. "Grace Metalious is the most surprising new novelist of the year. In Peyton Place this Pandora in blue jeans lifts the lid off a small New England village, in the most explosive novel since Kings Row.Made into a motion picture and became a cult classic t.v. series.

Doubleday New York 1957 First Edition as stated. VG/VG Black and gray boards, Silver and black titles to spine. PO's signature on first page,no other marks, otherwise clean. DJ has chipping , closed tears and a one inch open tear at top front. A Novel of Impersonation : a Frenchman and Englishman.

The Sioux by Irene Handl
This copy is in near fine condition!
Stated First

Published by Knopf
"A dazzling and wholly original novel! The story of an aristocratic French family living in our time with a style and arrogance that are emphatically feudal." It has nothing to do with the Sioux tribe of Native Americans.

Sliver
Author Ira Levin
1991 Bantam Books
Author of Rosemary's Baby & Stepford Wives

With ice and precision of a Master.
Ira Levin has created a mesmerizing story that culminates in a scene of electrifying suspense to rival any he has ever written .

A sinuous thriller, a hypnotic story of suspense.

New York: Random House, 1938 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing, 1938. VG condition/none, light brown boards with a breathtaking sketch of the Cathedral on the island of Mont St Michel on the front cover. Bottom spine is frayed a bit, slight bumping to edge of spine and corners. Number "7" printed on spine. Light stains to cover along edges. Illustrated fly leafs, cool military stamps on inside of covers, " Post Library, 3rd Corps area Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, PA." and "Headquarters Service Club HRPE Newport News, VA." Printed numbers and checkout cards. "This is the Abbey of Mont St Michel - crowning glory of medieval architecture. Not only a shrine, it is also a fortress set boldly on a great rock in the Atlantic Ocean. At low tide the causeway to the French mainland is passable; at high tide the water submerges it, and the Abbey becomes an island. This modern novel tells of a drama enacted within the stone walls of the incredible structure that man… Read More

Alfred Knopf, New York, 1974 VG+/VG+. Original black boards with gilt titles on front board and spine, Top of pages red. PO's name and address stamped on first fly page. No other marks, tight clean copy. Looks to be never opened and read. DJ is gold with black and white titles to front and spine. Le Carre drew from his experiece of the revealing of the Cambridge 5 Traitors in the 1950 and 1960's. It was made into a film in 2011 and received 3 Academy Award Nominations.

New York: Harpers, 1894 Book. Illus. by DU Maurier. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition- the true and scarce first, first serialized in Harper's. Beautiful cover depicting wings and a heart in gilt in the middle of a spider web, with flowers and other various symbols as a border in green. Scarce, collectible. Same date, 1894, to copyright and title page. Hard boards in very good condition, with the usual bumping to spine edges and corners. Cover lightly stained with a few light speckles. All pages are intact. Numerous beautiful wood cut prints throughout book, illustrated by DU Maurier. The English triple decker (1894) did not retain these illustrations. One of the most popular novels of it's time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siecle after Bram Stoker's Dracula. Published serially in Harper's Monthly in 1894. Adapted to the stage several times, made into a movie in 1931.Trilby inspired Gaston Leroux's novel Phantom of the Opera. Trilby introduce the trilby hat to the UK in the… Read More

Knopf 1998 stated First Trade Edition. NF/NF Black hard boards with silver gilt titles on spine. Illustrated glossy DJ with Armand the Vampire on the front.

Doubleday New York, 1954 Stated First Edition. Same date. VG green hard boards with black titles to front and spine. Edge wear to spine, corners bumped . No dj. First fly leaf torn, otherwise no damage to inside. No marks, no names, no stickers.Author Daphne du Maurier reconstructs from museum and personal notes, the life of her great great grand mother Mary Anne Clarke who lived for a year or two under the protection of H.R.H. The Duke of York Commander in Chief of the Army.