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W. Hartford CT: The American Radio Relay League, 1932. 1st. Softcover. Good/None. Single issue softcover magazine, 96 pages. B/w illustrations, ads. Articles include: Crystal Control for Ultra-High Frequencies, Stabilizing Superheterodyne Performance, Simplified Remote Control for Amateur Trasmitters, others. Wraps lightly worn, dust soiled. Record # 371160

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The assignment was simple: stake out the man’s home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay. The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren’t made for taking orders—and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter. Like new. Record # 372444

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The assignment was simple: stake out the man’s home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay. The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren’t made for taking orders—and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter. Like new. Record # 372500

London: Hard Case Crime, 2016. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Laurel Blechman, Glen Orbik. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman, Glen Orbik. With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he’s working for. Like new. Record # 372455

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Putting his plan in motion to target other hitmen, Quarry follows one from steamy Florida to the sober Midwest. But this killer isn’t a man at all—she’s a sloe-eyed beauty, as dangerous in bed as she is deadly on the job. Has Quarry finally met his match? Like new. Record # 372454

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. It’s normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they’re dead bodies—and the cast and crew discover they’re trapped in a house with a serial killer—Quarry’s got his work cut out for him. Like new. Record # 372538

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Putting his plan in motion to target other hitmen, Quarry follows one from steamy Florida to the sober Midwest. But this killer isn’t a man at all—she’s a sloe-eyed beauty, as dangerous in bed as she is deadly on the job. Has Quarry finally met his match? Like new. Record # 372539

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks. But in this wide-open city—with sin everywhere, and betrayal around every corner—Quarry must make the most dangerous choice of his deadly career: who to kill? Like new. Record # 372496

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target? Like new. Record # 372453

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target? Like new. Record # 372501

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It’s not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences—but coming after Quarry has consequences, too. Like new. Record # 372443

London: Hard Case Crime, 2017. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn’t begin to describe Max Climer’s magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. Evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max’s career permanently. Only another hit man—the ruthless professional known as Quarry can keep Climer from becoming a casualty in the Sexual Revolution. Like new. Record # 372445

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target? Like new. Record # 372540

Philadelphia : John Wanamaker, 1899. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Joseph Pennell. Hardcover, green cloth with gilt and black decoration, 147 illustrations by Joseph Pennell and others. Folded Map laid In. Covers with light edgewear and chipping. Top edge gilt. Record # 202081

NY: Arbor House, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Record # 70311

London: Hodder & Stoughton, nd (1913). Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hugh Thomson. Hardcover, purple cloth covers with elaborate gilt design featuring 3 ladies drinking tea, 197 pages. 17 color illustrations plus frontispiece by Hugh Thomson, all tipped in and with tissue guards. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Corners lightly rubbed, spine wear, light stain to rear cover. No date but assumed 1920s and first illustrated thus. Record # 502215

London: Hard Case Crime, 2011. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 224 pages. Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He’d killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one—by expecting trouble.What he didn't expect was ever running into her again. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise like new. Record # 373738

Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2021. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Jaime Hernandez . Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. Having created one of the most expansive and remarkable casts of characters of any cartoonist who ever lived (under the umbrella of the ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series), acclaimed graphic novelist Jaime Hernandez — Will Eisner Hall of Famer; Eisner, Harvey, Ignatz, and PEN Award winner; L.A. Times Book Prize winner; and on a very short list of contenders for the title of America’s Greatest Living Cartoonist — has been privately amassing a body of work that no one else has ever seen for over 40 years. Until now. Creating a Love and Rockets-adjacent world, set in the heyday of 1960s and ’70s women’s wrestling and lucha libre, Queen of the Ring is a best-of book spotlighting the women who are often ignored in pro wrestling in 125 full color illustrations: pin-ups, action shots, fake wrestling magazine covers, all presented in a deluxe hardcover that echoes the… Read More

London: Fisher Unwin, 1898. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black and gilt decoration. Sepia photograph as frontispiece, top edge gilt. Covers show edge wear, rubbing. Preliminary pages with foxing, tanning. Internally clean, solid copy. Record # 412060

NY: W W Norton & Co, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 608 pages. A startling anecdotal history of gay life in twentieth-century New York explores the confluence of historical and social factors that made Manhattan a mecca for homosexuals in the second half of this century. Record # 374124