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Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. (1898).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth. Top edges gilt, others uncut. 259 pages. Previous owner's name and address. No dust jacket. Spine faded. Contents clean and tight. Some pages unopened. Uncommon.

New York: Stravon Publishers (1963).. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Remo Farruggio. Reprint. Cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 126 pp. Edited by Walter S. Keating. Only minor wear to jacket. A clean, attractive copy. The first English prose translation of Arms Amatoria.

Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal (1963).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. Gold Medal k1304. 159 pp. Small piece of clear tape to spine. "She was the perfect secret agent, with every bit of heart trained out of her beautiful body...

New York: Oxford University Press. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Cloth spine with gilt lettering. 213 pp. Very light wear to boards. Contents clean and tight. "A haunted, troubled, beautifully articulated journey into the past." - San Francisco Chronicle

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. , 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth spine with gilt lettering. Map endpapers. 326 pages. Dust jacket has a couple of small chips and tears. Contents clean and tight.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. First published in 1854. Cloth. 144 pages. Minor wear to binding, bump to fore-edges. Contents solid.

Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones G. P. (1958).. Soft cover. Very Good. Spanish text. Paperback. 159 pp. Moderate wear, pages yellowing.

New York: Warner Books (1973).. Soft cover. Very Good. First paperback edition. 157 pages. Cover art by George Gross. A clean copy with only light wear. "Three scientists die violently, one in Paris, one in Berlin and one in Montreal. Each exhales fire as he dies, like some ancient dragon. Coincidence? Hardly! The Avenger races to halt an international conspiracy that threatens to consume the planet in flames.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library (1982).. Hardcover. Very Good. Edward Ardizzone. Red leatherette with gilt lettering and decoration. All edges gilt. A clean, attractive copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth. 229 pages. A solid copy with only light wear. "MacDonald's storytelling gifts are admirably displayed in his new novel, a mesmerizing narrative encapsulating questions on viable economics and snail-slow programs to protect natural resources." - PW

New York: Gold Medal (1963).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. k1347. 176 pp. Cover crease. A solid copy.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press (2005).. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarter cloth with silver lettering. xiii, 170 pages. Minor bump to tail of spine, else Fine. "The nine stories in this debut collection, set mostly in a well-drawn rural South, gorgeously examine loneliness and its companion, longing. Vice has a gift for making the extraordinary plausible, for rendering complex motivations in spare but metaphoric language and searing details." - PW

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth. vii, 206 pp. Jacket has short tears. A solid copy.

New York: Holt (1986).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Almost Fine book in similar dust jacket. An attractive copy of Erdrich's second novel.

New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie (1915).. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Cloth. Pictorial endpapers. 228, 182 pp. Illustrated. No dust jacket. Previous owner's name and address. A solid copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. xvii, 426 pp. Contributers' notes. Only minor wear. Stories by Rick Bass; Charles Baxter; Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr.; Harriet Doerr; Alice Munro; John Updike; and others.

New York: The Book League of America. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. 375 pp. No dust jacket. Bump to bottom edges, not affecting text; pages yellowing. Contains Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, and The Death of Olivier Becaille.

New York: Random House (1991).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarter cloth with gilt lettering. 225 pages. Signed by the author on a publisher's bookplate. A clean, attractive copy.

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books (1988).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. xv, 383 pages. A solid copy with only light wear.

New York: Random House (1962).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth with gilt lettering. 308 pp. Dust jacket was glued to book. "The famously sharp-edged social realism and always on-the-money dialogue of the late novelist John O'Hara are brought to bear in a stinging saga of ambition and fate, Hollywood style." - Ingram