Jennifer Niven

The story of Finch and Violet - made into the 2020 movie.

This is an Advance Reader's Copy. Normally I would not sell an ARC, but as this is signed and was so popular, I thought someone would like to have it.

2015 ARC paperback, signed in purple pen, very nice! Embossed cover. New, unread. Not even shelfwear. From Heartland Fall Forum booksellers convention.

A great edition for your collection! Would make a great gift.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Minnesota

Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world. A first young adult novel by the author of American Blonde. Simultaneous eBook.

All the Bright Places SIGNED ARC

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The first Battle story, but more importantly, the introduction of Bundle! Very much in the flavor of Nancy Drew, full of intrigue and secrets, all wrapped up in an English country home.

1964 Dell first paperback edition. Good vintage condition, with sun fading on spine and slight lean. See photos. Page edges stained red. Interior clean and unmarked, binding tight. 45 cents on cover!


One of my favorites! This is a duplicate in my collection.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Secret of Chimneys

George Orwell

Erich Fromm

Classic work of a future that nobody wants that is becoming more and more prescient daily.

1981 Signet Classic paperback. Good vintage condition, spine lightly creased. Binding tight and interior clean.

This one belongs in your collection, if not your currently reading pile!

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Winston Smith is a worker at the Ministry of Truth, where he falsifies records for the party. Secretly subversive, he and his colleague Julia try to free themselves from political slavery but the price of freedom is betrayal.

1984

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One in a series of Sherlock Holmes books, The World's Best Reading. Handsome edition for your shelf!

1987 Reader's Digest hardcover. No jacket thus. Includes original insert. With 8 black and white illustrations.

This volume includes some of the best Sherlock Holmes stories! Including A Scandal in Bohemia, The Man with the Twisted Lip, and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.

A great addition to any Holmes collection!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Owlcrate edition of the most ardently loved romance of all time.

From the 2022 Of Romance and Rivalry box. Published by Owlcrate. Cover design by Renata Krawczyk. Like new, just took it out of the box, actually.

Great addition to any P&P or Jane Austen collection! There are 2 other titles in this series - The Secret Garden and Frankenstein. Collect them all!

Pride and Prejudice

Good vintage edition of the book that the movie starring Jodi Foster was based on! From the father of the Cosmos.

1986 Pocket Books, first edition. Slight creases in spine. Otherwise overall good vintage condition.

NYT bestseller, from one of the leading voices of our time on our place in the universe. A modern classic.


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Cara Black

First in the Aimee Leduc mystery series!

1999 SoHo Crime, 2nd edition. Like new, no spine crease, no dings, stains or marks.

Aimee Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has sworn she would stick to tech investigation - no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aimee with a secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimee unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she takes her findings to her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. Can Aimee solve the crime?

Murder in the Marais

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A lovely vintage copy of the Harvest edition of a postmodern classic.

1953 Harcourt, Brace & World Inc, paperback. Cover design by Janet Halverson.


Slight lean to spine. Sun fading to spine. Old sticker on lower cover. Inside tight and bright. A good copy of this rare edition.

Lovely addition to any Woolf collection! Cover price $1.75!

Mrs. Dalloway

A very nice collectible copy of this romance classic!

1960 Signet Classic, 17th printing (which makes it about 1965), paperback. Tight and clean. Very good vintage condition, with only a very slight crease on the spine. Includes Charlotte's Preface of 1847.


Striking, brooding classic cover. Afterword by Arthur Zeiger. Would make a great addition to any Jane Eyre collection!

Jane Eyre

J. R. R. Tolkien

Lovely oversized paperback of one of my favorite books! This is the 75th anniversary edition.

2012 Mariner trade paperback. Includes 2 maps. Embossed cover with spot varnish tone on tone and gold accents. Slight shelf wear. Spine uncreased.

Add this one to your Tolkien collection! A lovely reading copy. Great read aloud story!

The Hobbit

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Varian Johnson

Second book in the Jackson Greene series, school spy antics for middle grade and above.

2016 Levine Books/Scholastic jacketed hardcover. Signed first edition with complete number line. See photos.

Pristine edition, stored since it was picked up at book convention. A souvenir of my publishing career!

Complete with promotional bookmark.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

One Fake Video. One Real Problem

When a video frames Jackson Greene and his friends for a crime they didn't commit, Gang Greene battles the blackmailers in this sequel to the acclaimed The Great Greene Heist.Jackson Greene is riding high. He is officially retired from conning, so Principal Kelsey is (mostly) off his back. His friends have great new projects of their own. And he's been hanging out a lot with Gaby de la Cruz, so he thinks maybe, just maybe, they'll soon have their first kiss.Then Jackson receives a link to a faked security video that seems to show him and the rest of Gang Greene flooding the school gym. The jerks behind the video threaten to pass it to the principal -- unless Jackson steals an advance copy of the school's toughest exam. So Gang Greene reunites for their biggest job yet. To get the test adn clear their names, they'll have to outrun the school's security cameras, outwit a nosy member of the Honor Board, and outmaneuver the blackmailers while setting a trap for them in turn. And as they execute another exciting caper full of twists and turns, they'll prove that sometimes it takes a thief to catch a cheat.

To Catch a Cheat SIGNED

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Ceramic travel cup featuring Emily Brontë quote:
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the Autumn tree."

Owlcrate Sept 2021 Haunted Hearts box. 16 oz cup features a silicon sleeve and lid. Design by Macarena Chomik.

Beautiful cup with fall design, in original box, never used. Walk around in style!

Owlcrate

Bronte quote cup

Dark Romance Magnetic Frame Set.

Large magnetic frames featuring book quotes:
"All the time in the world is worth nothing if I don't get to spend it with you." From The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller. Vertical/portrait ornate frame, roughly 5.5 x 8".
"It's easy to lose sight of what's real when you're lost jn the stars." From The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh. Landscape/horizontal frame with roses, roughly 6.5 x 4.5".

From Sept 2021 Owlcrate box. Brand new. Use on your fridge, on a filing cabinet, etc.


The Beautiful

You can just hear Bilbo shouting this as he runs down the path, away from his hobbit hole and out into the big wide world!

Brand-new with tag still attached cloth/nylon passport wallet with zip opening. Features RFID to prevent identity theft. Water resistant material.

Features quote from The Hobbit, "I'm going on an adventure!" Owlcrate exclusive.


Zips open to hold all your important papers. A very fun addition to your travel kit!

The Hobbit passport wallet

Plush satin sleepmask with ACOMAF quote: "to the stars who listen - and the dreams that are answered." From A Court of Mist and Fury.

Never used. Probably Owlcrate or could be LitJoy. So very soft. Perfect luxury item to pamper yourself!

The front is the same color purple as the back, but is not rendering correctly here.

Sleepmask

ACOMAF quote

Louisa Alcott

A story outside the Little Women universe, in a lovely edition.

1996 Little, Brown trade paperback. There is a smudge on the top of the front cover which bleed-through where some idiot was overzealous in scratching out a name with a Sharpie. Let that be a lesson to you. Sometimes the cure is worse than the cold.

Otherwise, really pristine condition! Lovely cover art by Jane Dyer.

From the Original Publisher

Relates the adventures of Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and dog run away from the circus.

Under the Lilacs

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Hope Jahren

My mistake! Bought this from the Buy one, get one 1/2 off table. But I already have it!

2017 Vintage Books paperback. Absolutely unread. Bestselling memoir of a life in plants.

National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Film Prize for Excellence in Science Books Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, TIME.com, NPR, Slate, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life--but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father's college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work "with both the heart and the hands." She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.

Lab Girl

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Gaston Leroux

John L. Flynn

The classic dark romance! A soft spooky read for the season.

2001 Signet Classics paperback. Good overall condition, binding is tight, spine uncreased. Corners slightly bumped.

Add this one to your gothic lit collection!

In 1910, the mystery novelist Gaston Leroux, working from scraps of history, theatrical lore, and his own fertile imagination, created a masterpiece in Le fantome de l'opera, the story of a disfigured composer who lives in the labyrinthine depths of the Paris Opera. After the breathtaking debut of Christine Daae, the whispers of an Opera ghost seem to become reality as the young singer vanishes. As the Phantom strikes again and again, targeting foes from a jealous diva to a romantic rival, Leroux spins a thriller of obsession and violence with, at its center, a tormented murderer who awakens our deepest fears and sympathies. The inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running musical, Leroux's novel is still more riveting than anything Broadway could produce



The Phantom of the Opera

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Howard Goldowsky

Anthology of chess fiction including authors such as Katherine Neville, Wells Tower, Paul Eggers, Stephen Carter, and more.

2010 Mongoose Press, hardcover. Missing dustjacket.

For any fan of The Queen's Gambit!

Mongoose Press Anthology of Chess Fiction

All profits from Masters of Tecnnique: The Mongoose Anthology of Chess Fiction, help support multiple chess charities. --Book Jacket.

Masters of Technique

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Alice Hoffman

Beautiful gift-quality hardcover of a middle grade tale by the author of Practical Magic.

2015 Wendy Lamb Books, jacketed hardcover. First edition. Like new, some minor shelfwear to top of dustjacket.

A beautiful addition to your Alice Hoffman collection, and a lovely story for your middle school child.

Living in a town where fairy tales are real and a monster is rumored to be hiding, young Twig witnesses astounding changes in her efforts to break a witch's curse on her family. A first middle-grade novel by the award-winning author of Here on Earth. Simultaneous eBook.

Nightbird

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Alexandra Bracken

Brand new, never read product of a giveaway I won back in the day. Fourth book in the Darkest Minds series.

2018 Hyperion jacketed hardcover. Book has literally not been cracked open. Pristine.

By the author of the Passenger series.

Don't miss the hotly-anticipated new novel in the New York Times bestselling Darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken, just in time for the major motion picture adaptation of The Darkest Minds, starring Amandla Stenberg and Mandy Moore! Told through the eyes of beloved character Zu, now seventeen, this harrowing, standalone story of resilience, resistance, and reckoning will thrill loyal fans and new readers alike.

The Darkest Legacy (the Darkest Minds, Book 4)

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Illustrated vintage paperback with complete stories. Each story in Just So Stories has an illustration.

1986 Bantam Classics trade paperback. US first edition. Rare cover with a painting by a Mogul artist, "Plane Tree and Squirrels." Good condition, tight and clean.

Great addition to your classics collection!

From the library of my Book Aunt.

The Jungle Books and Just So Stories

Groovy vintage edition of standalone Christie, original UK title Murder Is Easy.

1974 Pocket paperback. Very good vintage condition.

Great addition to your Agatha collection!

Easy to Kill

Jane Smiley

Two novellas from the author of A Thousand Acres.

1992 Ballantine Books vintage paperback. Good overall condition. Former owner name sticker on fep.

Hard-to-find volume for your library! From the library of my Book Aunt.

"Smiley's stories lucidly explore the complexities of contemporary sexual and dometic life...the emotional and moral complexity that she uncovers in the characters of these resonant novellas confirms Jane Smiley's singular talent. ORDINARY LOVE AND GOOD WILL is an extraordinary achievement." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD ORDINARY LOVE At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father--and changed all their lives irrevoccably. GOOD WILL Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he has designed for his small family, a man discovers that even the right choices have unexpected consequences--sometimes heart-breaking ones.

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All the Bright Places SIGNED ARC

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The Secret of Chimneys

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1984

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Carl Sagan

Contact

Cara Black

Murder in the Marais

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit

Varian Johnson

To Catch a Cheat SIGNED

Emily Brontë

Bronte quote cup

Renee Ahdieh

The Beautiful

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit passport wallet

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ACOMAF quote

Louisa Alcott

Under the Lilacs

Hope Jahren

Lab Girl

Gaston Leroux; John L. Flynn

The Phantom of the Opera

Katherine Neville, Wells Tower, et al; Howard Goldowsky, Ed.

Masters of Technique

Alice Hoffman

Nightbird

Alexandra Bracken

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The Jungle Books and Just So Stories

Agatha Christie

Easy to Kill

Jane Smiley

Ordinary Love and Good Will

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