Search Results: Authors starting with S from MLC Books

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1947. Reprint, first Tower Books printing. Gently bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear at the corners and spine ends. Binding square and solid, pages tanned with the previous owner's name on the front free end paper. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, foxing to the flaps with the upper 2" of the rear flap missing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good/Fair.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Gently bumped and rubbed. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, occasional faint foxing. Bookstore sticker from Dutton Bros. in Oakland on the rear pastedown. Jacket sunned, rubbed and edgeworn with chips and tears. Short tape repair on the upper rear panel, in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good/Fair.

Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance and Company, 1993. World leaders implement a plan to legalize and control the production, distribution, and sale of all currently illegal drugs in an effort to reduce crime and violence, leading to brutal reprisals by drug cartels around the world. Fine, as new condition save for a sticker shadow on the front end paper, jacket in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

Austin, Texas, U.S.A.: Zumaya Enigma, 2007. Recently widowed Harriet Truman returns to Foggy Point, Washington and inherits her aunt's quilting studio. When the studio is vandalized and her aunt's best friend is murdered Harriet must find the killer. Gently bumped, spine creased. Signed by Sachitano on the title page, along with a sticker from the 2011 Houston Quilt Festival. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket.

Richmond, VA: Pussycat Press, 1998. First printing of the first Amanda Poe mystery. The mystery moves between present day serial killings and the pre-Civil War south, involving ghosts and gunfights, torture, murder, kinky sex and corruption. Gently rubbed, signed by Sachs on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. First printing. Short 1/8" tear to the spine heel with a corresponding tear to the mylar covered jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Walker & Co, 1986. First printing. Paul Shaw travels to California to meet a prospective client, but finds his dead body. Spine a bit cocked, bumped on the ends, with light foxing to the upper edge of the text block. Jacket flaps tanned, in mylar. Signed by Sadler on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/Near Fine.

Philadelphia, PA: Penn Publishing, 1936. Bumped and rubbed with a bit of spotting to the boards, a touch of wear at the corners and spine ends. Spine slightly sunned. Rear hinge cracked, foxing to the end papers.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2015. Salaita combines personal reflection and political critique to shed new light on his firing from the University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign in response to his public tweets criticizing the Israeli government's 2014 assault on Gaza. An important discussion of higher education and social justice activism. First printing. Spine head bumped with a corresponding crimp to the jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Ecco Press, 1988. Introduction by Robert Hass. Gently bumped and rubbed. Address written on rear free end paper. Jacket lightly rubbed and wrinkled at the extremeties. Flaps tanning, crease at the lower front flap, in mylar. Signed by the author on the half title page, followed by an inscription to the noted Indian poet and scholar "To A. K. Ramanujan - friendship and admiration, Tomaz. Jerusalem, 18.2.1990." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Oliver Arts & Open Press, 2011. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Review copy. An Inspector John Sanders and Harriet Jeffries mystery. Faint foxing to the upper edge of the text block. Jacket in mylar. Signed by Sale on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. First printing. Inspector John Sanders and Harriet Jeffries investigate why someone is willing to kill to retrieve a photograph taken by Harriet. Gently bumped with foxing to the edges of the text block. Jacket lightly rubbed and crimped, in Brodart. Signed by Sale on the title page.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. Uncorrected advance proof. Very gently bumped and rubbed. Signed by Sale on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. An Inspector John Sanders and Harriet Jeffries mystery. Spine head gently rolled with a corresponding crimp to the mylar covered jacket. Just a hint of foxing to the upper edge of the text block, jacket flaps lightly tanned at the upper edges. Signed by Sale on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Charles Scribner's Sons: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. First printing. The third Inspector John Sanders and Harriet Jeffries mystery. Edges of the text block lightly foxed. Jacket flaps tanned, in mylar. Signed by Sale on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Popular Library, 1950. Popular Library 275. Contains the title story and "Cape Spectre." Gently rubbed at the edges with a thin straight maroon line down the front, appears to be a publishing error. Binding solid, pages tanned.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951. Reprint. Bumped and rubbed, spine cocked, binding solid. Jacket rubbed, tanned and clipped with chips and tears, including 1" loss to the spine heel. Lower front spine fold is detached most of the way up the jacket, in new Brodart. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

Portland, OR: KXL Radio and Binfords & Mort, 1965. Very gently bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed and edgeworn with small chips and tears. Spine sunned, small sticker scuff at front spine fold, in mylar. Inscribed by Salisbury on the half title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Sanderson, William.

New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1994. There is a sniper on the loose in 1960s New Orleans and, when the sixth victim is standing next to Lew Griffin, he sets out to avenge her death. Scuffing to the lower boards, light foxing to the edges of the text block, with a pair of small spots on the front end paper and pastedown. Jacket lightly crimped with a sticker scuff to the lower rear panel, in Brodart. Signed by Sallis on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.