The Chessboard Queen
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1983). First edition. A bit cocked, else near fine in modestly rubbed near fine dustwrapper. More
New Arrivals
The Forest of App
New York: Greenwillow Books, (1983). First edition. Fine in modestly rubbed else near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. author's first book, set in a mystical forest. More
Lark's Castle
London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. (1976). First edition. Illustrated by Michael Baldwin. Fine in slightly rubbed fine dustwrapper. Boldly Inscribed by York. The second book for children by the noted actress. Very scarce, especially signed. More
Western Hard-Cases or, Gunfighters Named Smith
Ruidoso, New Mexico: Frontier Book Company, 1960. First edition. Fine in age-toned very good dustwrapper with a tape repair on the rear panel. Signed by the author. More
Happy New Year, Herbie and Other Stories
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. First edition. Slight offset from a stamp on the frotn fly, slight mottling on boards, else near fine in slightly age-toned very good or better dustwrapper. A collection of short fiction. Hunter, who shot to fame with The Blackboard Jungle and later scripted Alfred... More
The Tattooed Man
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1958). First edition. Very faint dampstain on rear board else near fine in price-clipped, about near fine dustwrapper. More
Green Grass of Wyoming
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1946). First edition. Owner's name and address on the front fly, very faint and small dampstain at the foot, else enar fine in about very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the crown. More
Forgotten Pioneer
New York: World Publishing, 1963. First edition. Illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh. A little toning at the spine else near fine in fine dustwrapper. More
The Last Emperor
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1975). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny creased tears. Non-fiction biography of the last Emperor of China, P'u Yi, who gained the throne at age two, and was later duped into collaborating with Manchuria's Japanese conquorers. Basis for the... More
Who Kidnapped the Sheriff? Tales from Tickfaw
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985. First edition. Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small soiled tear at the crown. More
Cooper's Creek
New York: Harper & Row, (1963). First American edition. Octavo. Fine in price-clipped else fine dustwrapper. More
Autobiography
New York: E.P. Dutton, (1939). First American edition. Some toning on the boards, very good lacking the dustwrapper. More
A Sherlock Holmes Commentary
New York: Drake Publishers, (1973). Stated third printing. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a small tape internal tape shadow. Warmly Inscribed by Dakin in 1975. More
The Blue-Nosed Witch
[No place]: Holiday House, (1956). First edition. Illustrated by Carl Rose. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and a little rubbing at the extremities. A very nice copy of this often reprinted children's book about a modern witch by a Salt Lake City-born and bred author. The first... More
The Grapes of Wrath
New York: The Viking Press, (1939). First edition. Boards a bit soiled, small crease at the top of the first three or four leaves, very good lacking the dustwrapper.Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of an Oklahoma family's migration to California during the Depression. Basis for the John Ford film featuring Henry Fonda... More
The Scholar and the Sprout
New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, (1946). First edition. Fine in very good price-clipped dustwrapper with some shallow chipping at the extremities. Humorous novel. More
The Topless Tulip Caper
London: Allison & Busby, (1984). First English and first hardcover edition. Very slightly cocked else fine in fine dustwrapper. More
A German Requiem
(London): Viking, (1991). First edition. Remainder stripe bottom edge, thus near fine in fine dustwrapper. More
An Acceptable Time
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1989). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
Ruins of Civility
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1996). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. author's second book, a Jamie Ramsgill mystery. Inscribed by the author on the title page. More
Naked Pueblo
New York: Harmony Books, (1999). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Author's first book, a collection of short stories set in the American West. More
Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45
New York: William Morrow, (1967). Second printing. 522pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps. Spine cocked with ends lightly sunned, corner bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper. More