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New York: Bantam Dell, 2007. 340 pgs. Near Fine condition trade paperback, clean and unmarked with minimal edge and corner wear. A reporter and novel author investigates the violent onstage murder of a sixties rock star, confronting his own demons while the music bridges and weaves the past and present, underground counterculture, mysticism and touches of the supernatural. ISBN 9780553383072. 2451.. 2nd Printing of Trade Paperback. Softbound Trade Pb. Near Fine. Illus. by Digital Vision/Getty Images. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1999. 8vo. 292 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked. Set in Hollywood, with film-maker Chili Palmer. Included is a sealed promotional excerpt copyright 1998 as distributed by Coca Cola before the book was released. ISBN 0385333919. #2181.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 2003. 8vo. 390 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, no chips, no tears, clean and unmarked. Alex Cross is back, with his first case as an FBI agent, investigating a rash of kidnappings and disappearances. Victims are being bought and sold, with evidence pointing to "The Wolf", a shadowy and much-feared enigma with possible ties to the Russian mob. ISBN 0316602906. #1666.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1994. 8vo. 239 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dust jacket, clean, crisp, unmarked, unread. Novel about an incest survivor, author's first book. ISBN 039913994X.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Thompson, Brown & Co, 1915. ix.156pgs. Very Good little green cloth hardcover, light shelf wear and rubbing to cloth at corners, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Internally clean, sound, unmarked. Frontis portrait engraving of Charles Lamb, tissue intact. Contents: Editor's Introduction; Essays: The Two Races of Men, New Year's Eve, Imperfect Sympathies, Dream-Children: A Reverie, A Dissertaction Upon Roast Pig, On Some of the Old Actors, Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading, The Superannuated Man, Old China; Letters: To Coleridge [3 letters], To Manning [2 letters], To Wordsworth [4 letters], To Miss Hutchinson [1 letter], To J. Taylor [2 letters], To Bernard Barton [2 letters]; Verses: A Farewell to Tobacco, She is Going, The Old Familiar Faces. #1926. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1994. 344 pgs. Sept. 1994 First Edition, first printing. Debut novel of James Elliott, pseudonym for author and screenwriter J.C. Pollock. Intricate procedural and psychological suspense novel starring former CIA agent Mike Culley reenlisted by the CIA to capture serial killer on a Virginia campus. Other titles written by Pollock under this pseudonym include: Nowhere to Hide (1997) and Endgame (2000). ISBN 0385313292. #2498.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

New York: The Modern Library xii.250pgs. Very Good condition. Dark Green leatherette binding no. 4, Bernhard endpapers [circa 1925-1929] with gilt to spine. Light wear to edges, bottom spine edge frayed, spine slightly crinkled. Owner names on front blank. List of Modern Library titles after text. #1937.. Leatherette. Very Good. 16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall.

New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1993. 377pgs. Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean, tight, unmarked. Jacket has a trace of shelfwear along upper corners, no chips, tears or rubs. Detective Harry Lyon and his partner Connie Gulliver enter a nightmare of horror after killing in the line of duty. ISBN 0399137734. #2500. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1923. 8vo. x.310 pgs. Good to Very Good condition hardcover. Green cloth, light external shelfwear, light foxing to endpapers, frontis and title page, otherwise internally clean and unmarked. Frontis illustration by A.D. Rahn. Vintage shipwreck tale. August 1923 Printing. #2116.. No Additional Printings Indicated. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good. Illus. by A.D. Rahn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

USA: Endangered Species Coalition No place, no date. About 25 pgs. Very good condition staple-bound report, light staining and smudging to green covers. Published circa 1994 by the Endangered Species Coalition presumably to fight the backlash against and scapegoating of the Endangered Species Act reauthorization efforts, in light of challenges asserted by proponents of The Private Property Protection Act, Proposition 300 and various press coverages appearing at that time. Topics to be spearheaded include a brief overview of the Endangered Species Act, medicinal value of species, ecosystem protection, environment as early warning system, private property protection, job protection and economic strenghthening. The ESC is a national network of hundreds of conservation, scientific, educational, religious, sporting, business and community organizations working to protect disappearing wildlife and last remaining wild places. It is non-governmental, comprised of almost 400 diverse member groups located all… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1998. First American Edition, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. A beautiful, mysterious and highly-skilled stranger approaches fencing maestro Don Jaimes and requests that he teach her the art of the unstoppable thrust. By the author of The Club Dumas and The Seville Communion. ISBN 0151001812. #2508.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo, 9.25 by 6.0 Inches.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 2000. 311 pgs. Fine hardcover, clean and crisp, in Near Fine jacket. Tiny pinhead perforation to bottom left corner of jacket near spine edge, else fine. Set in Vienna in 1910, the murder of Freud's famous patient Dora is being investigated by the Inspector, newly trained in rationalist criminology. The author presents turn-of-the-century Vienna combined with aspects of forensics, criminolgy, food, botany, folklore, customs, perverse medical practices and subtle sexual secrets. ISBN 0316785644. #1742. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

IOWA: Wm. C. Brown, Iowa. Copyright 1985, Fifth Edition., 1985. 8vo. 110 pgs. Very Good condition softcover. Selection and care of equipment, basic skills, conditioning, bouting, rules and etiquette. ISBN 0697003698. #522.. Fifth Edition.. Softbound Pb. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Knapp Press, 1983. xii.209 pgs. Near Fine hardcover, tan cloth, clean and unmarked, in Very Good jacket and Very Good+ cloth-covered slipcase. Jacket has light edge wear and a closed tear to top edge of rear panel. Slipcase has minimal discernable shelfwear, no wear to edges and corners. Color photos throughout illustrate gardens of all types from several continents. Contents: Foreword, Introduction, English Gardens, Classical Gardens, Oriental Gardens, Country Gardens, Estate Gardens, Exotic Gardens, Special Gardens. Contents ISBN 089535117X. 1830.. 2nd Printing. Hardcover Dustjacket Slipcase. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - 9¾ Inches-12 inches tall.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1920. 111 pgs. Very Good condition small cloth hardcover, light shelf wear. Owner name on front endpaper along with paper residue from a previous clipping or insert. Frontis page with vintage photo portrait of Gray, with shallow crease and 1/4 inch tear to bottom edge. Poems interspersed with commentary, biographical and bibliographical information. Poems quoted in whole or in part: Sonnet on the Death of Richard West, West's Ode to May, Ode on the Spring, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Hymn to Adversity, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat (Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes), The Alliance of Education and Government, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, A Long Story, Stanzas to Mr. Bentley, Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude, The Progress of Poesy, The Bard, The Descent of Odin, The Death of Hoel (from the Gododin). #1498.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 16mo - 5¾" - 6¾" Tall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. 8vo. 309 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked. Spencer, a Boston PI, investigates the suicide of a gay activist after a friend of Hawk's is implicated and denied tenure. Spenser also comes to the aid of Susan Silverman's friend who is being stalked and who reciprocates with seduction. 0399144587. 1207.. Second Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Emmaus, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Rodale Press/St. Martin's Press, 1991. vii.344 pgs. Very Good+ in glossy pictorial boards as issued, clean and unmarked with a very slight bump to the lower left corner of back board. Illustrated with color photos, drawings and diagrams. Sections include learning from nature, elements of natural garden design, providing food, cover and water for wildlife and natural water garden design. Chapters: Introduction-Partners With Nature; Learning From Nature; Features of the Landscape; Creating a Natural Garden; Landscaping with Nature; Plants in the Natural Landscape, Elements of the Natural Garden; Wildlife and Water in the Natural Garden, A Last Word; USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; Further Reference, Photo Credits, Index. ISBN 0878579117. #1892.. Later Printing. Glossy Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994. 8vo. 316 pgs. Fine condition hardcover in Near Fine Jacket with upper corners very slightly rubbed. SIGNED, inscribed and dated by author on title page: "Constance Warloe. June 29, 1994. Nhizoni-Walk in Beauty." First Edition stated on copyright page, with number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . ISBN 0871135647. #2183.. Signed by Author. First Edition, Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 1999. 8vo. 309 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked. Archy McNally gets entangled in murder, blackmail and mayhem, Palm Beach style. ISBN 0399144900. #1414.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1900. 165pgs. Very Good condition small blue cloth hardcover. Light rubbing to cloth along edges and corners, slight fading to spine. Owner name and date on front endpaper, else clean and unmarked with sound binding. Contents: Preface; Introduction: I. England in Milton's Youth, II. The Life of Milton, III. L'Allegro and Il Pensero, IV. Comus, V. Lycidas, VI. Milton's Puritanism; Text [of thepoems]; Notes; Word Index. #1977. No Additional Printings Indicated. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall.