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Nairobi, Kenya:: Vipopremo Agencies, , (1973). First edition -. Good overall in orange wrappers (prev owner's name, some rubbing to the covers). First printing, a trade paperback. Includes questions and answers for students preparing for the East African Certificate of Education in African History. Maps. 247 pp. Uncommon.

New York:: Baen Books,, (2003.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Humorous fantasy novel of 'no holds barred' family feuding within E.Godz, Inc, whose 'stock-in-trade was magic.' 279 pp.

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1988.). SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (short closed tears to dj.). Early book club edition (back flap only refers to first 4 books in the series) Fifth mystery in the Kinsey Milhone series. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket art by Abby Kagan. 179 pp.

New York:: Ballantine,, (1956 c 1953). Good overall - usual toning to pages, prev owner's name. Note: all vintage paperbacks are fragile and need to be handled with care. . First thus- a pocket paperback. A collection of "short stories of science and sorcery." Introduction by Groff Conklin. #179, cover price 35c. 211 pp.

New York:: Berkley,, 1982.. Very good-.. Pocket paperback. Novelization of Spielberg's movie.

New York:: Scribner's,, 1970.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (missing front endpaper.). First printing. Author ventures into 1960's East Village in search of a son who shoots speed and takes LSD. - graphically describes.the East Village drug scene. 128 pp.

London:: Macmillan,, (2001). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The third novel, a psychological thriller , by this New Zealand born author, who has lived most of her life in Dublin. After twelve years Rachel Beckett is finally released from prison where she was sentenced for the murder of her husband - a murder she swears she did not commit. And now she is ready to take revenge on Daniel - her brother-in-law, one-time lover, and the man she insists fired the fatal shot. 436 pp.

New York:: Baen,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. The third book in this trilogy set in the land of Gradford. 410 pp. Cover art by Darrell Sweet (design by Carol Russo.)

Tucson:: University of Arizona Press,, (1993.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.). First printing. The first retrospective collection of works by this Osage Indian poet, Rhodes scholar, and professor of medieval English literature whose work bridges both Native American and European traditions; included are forty published and previously unpublished pieces written from 1970 to 1991. Volume 24 in the Sun Tracks series. 123 pp.

London:: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1906.. Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in embossed dark navy blue cloth with gilt lettering (corners somewhat bumped, front endpaper missing) . First edition. The first collaboration between these two authors, a story of espionage and treachery set in 19th century France and Russia. It begins simply and dramatically -"I was condemned to die." Glossy frontispiece by Harold Piffard. Tissue guard. 320 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads. Rather hard to find - no copies being offered for sale, and Worldcat only locates 4 copies in the UK.

New York:: Atria (Simon & Schuster),, (2021). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Publisher's letter laid in. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Named one of Ten Best History Books of 2021. by the Smithsonian Magazine, this is a book which honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in "a country losing its moral way." "In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, they established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators--yet there was little hope. That is, until the fall of 1943, when the camp's high school… Read More

New York:: St Martin's,, (1997). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine and unmarked dust jacket.. First printing. Set in Philadelphia, this is the third mystery featuring architect Jamie Ramsgill. 169 pp.

New York:: Walker,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Author's second book, a Regency romance. 158 pp.

New York:: Norton,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (pale yellow rectangle on front endpaper).. First printing. A collection by this award-winning poet which "explore and illuminate the mysteries and dangers beneath the common surfaces of ordinary life."

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, (1972). Hardcover -. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.. First book club edition. A collection of 27 of Asimov's early stories, each prefaced by Asimov's often amusing biographical details about how and when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluations of it. Appendix with a list of 60 short stories published during the Campbell years. vii, 568 pp. Code of M35 indicating that this was published in 1971, probably preceding the trade edition. Rather uncommon in any Doubleday printing.

New York:: Delacorte Press,, (1981.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The sevnth Spenser nove, set in Boston and Maine. Winner of the Maltese Falcon Award, for hardboiled mysteries. 212 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (2006). Near fine (some toning to the pages). 1st trade paperback printing. A book which is both funny and sad. The author, burnt out at twenty-eight, decides to retire early. He travels to southern Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at a retirement community that is home to thousands of senior citizens. This is "an irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately warmhearted account of Rodney's journey deep into the heart of retirement. Rodney struggles for acceptance from the senior citizens he shares a swimming pool with and battles with cranky octogenarians who want him off their turf." Includes a brief epilogue not found in the hardcover edition. 241 pp.

Dubuque, Iowa: : Wm [William] C. Brown Company, Publishers,, (1969.). First edition -. Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name, some rubbing to the covers.). First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. An important anthology arranged by type of poetry,rather than strictly chronologically - includes a generous selection of poems from most of the writers. Forms of poetry include "orator poets" (Lucy Terry, Jupiter Hammon, Gustavas Vassa, George Moses Horton, Frances E.W. Harper and others), formalist poets (Phillis Wheatley, Ann Plato, George Marion McLlelan, and Henrietta Cordelia Ray) ; romantic poets (John Boyd, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Seamen Cotter, several Creole poets, and others) and dialect poets (James Edwin Campbell, Daniel Webster Davis, Elliott B. Henderson, J. Mord Allen and James B. Carrothers.) Includes a general introduction by Robinson, several appendices, bibliography, index. xvii, 275 pp.

New Milford, CT and London:: The Toby Press,, (2008). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's first novel "a captivating downhill ride through the alleys and clubs of LA's 1948 bebop scene, crafting a fascinating antihero who will do just about anything to keep his fingers on the ivories. At first, Jewish musician Louis Greenberg seems downright courageous, using his charm and piano skills to earn a place in the black jazz clubs of Watts; he's even pursuing an impossible love affair with a beautiful black regular, Beatrice. But soon it becomes apparent that his outsider status is deserved: his day job is swindling war widows out of their money, using the memories of their departed husbands as bait." (Publishers Weekly) 348 pp.

Oak Ridge, Tennessee:: Iris Press, , (2007.). First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A series of poems originally published as three separate volumes, and appearing here for the first time as a trilogy in one book. A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the dedication page - "Thank you for bringing your strong inspiration to Esalen. A great pleasure to meet you. Here's some of my back pages from hard Knoxville." 163 pp.