Missing book jacket 
Small dent in bottom edge back cover 
Small stain on first 10 pages 
Pages yellowing with age 
Slight foxing on inside of covers

Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978, 823 pages 

A deadly virus spreads uncontrollably as evil presses in, and all must choose a side in this sprawling epic. This is the post-apocalyptic novel against which you'll measure all others.



Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

The Stand

Cover color fading 
Pages yellowing with age 
Light foxing inside covers 

Avon books, 1979 , 665 pages 

A novel ablaze with the flames of a magnificent passion that captures the clash of wills of two proud people: Alaina MacGaren, the impudent, plantation bred beauty whose reckless bravado could never be crushed-until she met the one man whose sheltering arms made her incapable of reason... and Cole Latimer, the tall, ramrod straight Yankee surgeon who rescues her, is deceived by her again and again, but who can never forget the night his soul was seared by a body clothed only in mystery.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ashes in the Wind

Color fading on book jacket spine 

Batam Books, 1983 book club edition, 403 pages

SARA DANE by Catherine Gaskin. The classic romantic novel of Australia and the courageous people who settled it. Sara Dane's fierce pride and unfettered spirit lead her to a wrongful conviction and a prison ship to Botany Bay. But that same pride, renewed by the love of a man who was once her jailer, leads her to overcome her past, defy convention and tame a continent. A riveting tale of a remarkable woman whose passion and ambition triumph over impossible odds.

Sara Dane

Patricia Matthews

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Batam Books, 1982, 326 pages 

In a violent age of war and turmoil, she rose from the ashes of battle to seize a wild and passionate dream. 
In the fiery aftermath of Civil War, she was penniless. She possessed only a ravaged farm and a cache of prized tobacco. Everything was gone but the determined spirit that drove her on. Two men would kindle her dreams, ignite her ambitions, set her aflame. Ben Asher gave her wisdom and tender love. Clint Devlin introduced her to passion and swept her into a stormy romance. Torn between two men, pitted against sworn enemies, Charlotte battled to prevail, to find rapture and wealth beyond compare, to see her beloved South reborn.

Embers of Dawn

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Brittle book jacket 

Little, Brown and Company, 1952 book club edition, 304 pages

The popular author of NEXT To VALOUR, THE SALEM FRIGATE and THE PEPPER TREE is at his story telling best in this fast-moving, action-packed novel about a doughty band of Scottish pioneers who braved a perilous ocean voyage to find a new homeland in what is now the province of Manitoba. 

THE STRANGE BRIGADe is also the love story of young Malcolm MacAllister, an itinerant schoolmaster; Jeannie, the bewitching daughter of pastor Alec MacLean; and handsome Andy Ross, a giant Scotch-Canadian lad. 

Two events in 1813 set in motion the exodus from Scotland: landholders evicted their ten• ants in great numbers to throw open their lands to shepherding; and the great Hud. son's Bay Company, locked in a deadly feud with the North West Fur Company for control of the Canadian fur lands, sought to make secure its holdings by importing farmers and artisans to the New World.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Strange Brigade

Color fading on book jacket

Doubleday & Co, 1980 book club edition, 180 pages


The Glendale, California, police blotter has been piling up for weeks, and Detectives Vic Varallo and Delia Rior-dan have their hands full. Their case load is a regular catalogue of criminal activity; it seems the local underworld's been working overtime. 
There's the stickup artist who's been knocking off motels. So far, he's hit three, and gotten away clean every time, 
There's the fellow who has a thing for nurses. He's proof of the adage that a crook will always return to the scene of his crime; this one returns again and again to the hospital parking lot, and each visit supplies a new rape victim. 
There's the abandoned, abused child whose grandparents think hes the devil's spawn, Their mistreatment has reduced him to a starving, mindless vegetable. 
And, just for variety, there's a teenage suicide, a knife murder at the railroad station, and the mysterious case of an elderly woman whose fatal heart attack came as a surprise to an old friend. The odd thing there is that she'd never had a history of heart disease-and that she left her considerable estate to someone pretty unlikely. 
So Vic and Delia have their work cut out for them, and there's plenty of it for the two dedicated cops. Until Delia encounters Dr. Neil Fordyce, an archaeologist she's been very much in love with, and has to re-evaluate her devotion to police work.




A Choice of Crimes

Book jacket torn - repaired at one time with tape

Mill & Morrow, 1956 book club edition, 191 pages

Her setting is the south of France.  Two young Englishwomen arrive on vacation, expecting a conventional holiday. They are Charity Selborne, an extravagantly lovely war widow, and her amusing, irreverent artist friend, Louise Cray. The enchanting vista of Provence delights them, and Charity is pleased to make her first conquest, a young man of thirteen who is having trouble with his dog. 
The young man introduces himself and Charity is charmed ... until she senses a terrible maturity behind his grave eyes. 
From that point on the tension mounts steadily until it reaches breaking point, while the thirsty heat of the Provençal summer, the noise of cicadas, the dust of country roads all contribute to the superb realism of the novel. 
There is a fine love affair, but as one English writer remarked, "For once love interest doesn't hold up the story." In effect, here is a real find.

Madam, Will You Talk?

Some yellowing of book jacket and slight tear 

World Publishing, 1967 book club edition, 254 pages

Where does innocence stop and terror begin? In a dramatic novel that weaves a spell of enchantment, Mary Dutton skillfully blends humor, pathos, and violence. For Thorpe, the six-year-old protagonist, it all begins innocently enough. On the surface, Thorpe's family is living an idyllic rural existence - her father, Jim Torrance, is the highly respected principal of the local high school. But he is also a liberal and a friend of the Negro. Through the latter "failing," and it couldn't be considered anything else in the South of 1935, he loses his job. Venie, Thorpe's mother, though generous and basically warmhearted, is uncomprehending and totally unsympathetic toward Jim's actions. As a Southerner who is the victim of her own prejudices and who cannot free herself of a venomous older sister's domination, she fights a losing battle to keep things the way they always have been.

Thorpe

Some color fading and tears on book jacket
Slight fixing on book ledge 

Doubleday & Co, Inc, 1982 book club edition, 565 pages

On a stormy Texas night in 1950, the world was ripe with promise for three inseparable boyhood friends. Each possessed a talent for winning that made success appear inevitable. Remarkable good looks, piercing intelli-gence, and charm were their individual credentials. Then something unex-pected-and tragic-happened. The three tried to forget this dark interlude in their young lives and each set out to ascend his own summit. But as they climbed they carried the secret —and it held the potential to destroy them all. 

CELEBRITY is the kind of stunning experience that readers worldwide have come to expect from Thomas Thompson. Just as he did with his blockbuster bestsellers, Blood and Money and Serpentine, Thompson has written a book that seizes you on the opening page and holds you in its power until the shattering conclusion. CELEBRITY is a knockout of a first novel by one of America's most acclaimed storytellers.

Celebrity

Book jacket color faded, brittle and chipping

Doubleday Inc, 1968 book club edition, 701 pages

Mary, Lady Stewart was a British novelist who developed the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous situations.


Three complete novels by Mary Stuart

The Spell of Mary Stuart

Book jacket is brittle
Stain on inside front cover and lead page and back inside cover 

Dial Press, 2976 book club edition, 249 pages

The weapons are stored, ready for the Final American Revolution. Strike date: July 4, 1976. Name: Urban Guerrilla Warfare. Method: Terror in the streets, rooftops, cellars of Thirty American Cities. Leader: Lawyer Agatha Teel, beau-tiful, smart, black. Funding: Heroin, from plant to vein. CIA team: Enid and Bart Simms, the most erotically incestuous brother and sister agents in history. Training: Deep in China's mountains twelve American men and women study death in a four-year course. Secret Agent for the Pentagon: Someone. Someone who must withstand briefings and de-briefings to spare America from the coming violence, and make her safe for her generals and owners. An electrifying reading experience about what would really happen if all the world's good causes were taken to their ultimate terrorist consequences: the truth will hit all readers: NONE OF US WANTS TO DIE IN ANY CAUSE, NOT EVEN OUR OWN.





The Whisper of the Axe

Brittle book jacket 

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967 book club edition, 441 pages 

This novel tells the story of a magnificent exploit: the feat of the Danish Underground in 1943 when, in the space of two weeks, virtually all the eight thousand Danish Jews were smuggled to Sweden. 

For three and a half years the Germans had carried on a rather peaceful occupation of Denmark, with no persecution of the Jewish community. Hitler decided suddenly to deport the Jews, for eventual extermination. The Gestapo selected the High Holy Days as a practicable moment, and everything was efficiently arranged. But it did not work. It did not work because some of the Germans had become corrupted by the decency of the conquered people; and because the unwarlike Danes risked everything (and did it brilliantly) for their fellow Danes, the Jews. 


A Night of Watching

Simon & Schuster, 1967, 735 pages

An explosive, emotional novel about a young Jewish boy whose parents die at the hands of the Nazis but he is saved by a Catholic Frenchwoman and raised in her faith. When the war ends Michel's aunt in Israel claims him but "Madam Rose" Michel's foster French mother refuses to give him up and the battle is soon joined.

What begins as a personal quarrel in a small provincial town slowly and inexorably grows into a cause involving the hierarchy of the Church and the leaders of French Jewry as the boy goes in hiding passed from one secret refuge to another by Madam Rose and by the priests and nuns. The conflict not only divides France, reviving old passions and stirring up anti-Semitism and anticlericalism, it becomes a national scandal.

But in the end it is up to young Michel torn and devastated by opposing loyalties and loves who must decide his own fate.

Michel, Michel

Spine color faded 
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Doubleday & Company, 1952, 631 pages

"Play-by-play descriptions of seventy-six famous operas, covering plot, dialogue, and every important aria." 


Milton Cross’ Complete Stories of the Great Operas

Yellowing pages due to age
Some shelfwear

Doubleday & Company, 1957, 732 pages

Tarkington, Booth (1869-1946) Short stories, three complete novels, and selections from novels. Source: Publisher
This publication includes the following:
Complete Novel: Alice Adams; Penro; The Magnificent Ambersons
Short Stories: The One-Hundred-Dollar Bill; Mary Smith; Dolling; Mrs. Protheroe; Mrs. Dodge; Great Men's Sons; Stell Crozier; Little Florence; Love at Seventeen; Little Marie From Kansas City

The Gentleman from Indianapolis 

Tracy Chevalier

Small 1” tear at bottom front cover and spine 

Plume, 2002, 324 pages

Falling Angels chronicles the lives of two girls whose families own adjacent plots in a London cemetery—one decorated with a sentimental angel, the other with an elaborate urn. During a ceremonial stroll through the graveyard grounds, an act of mourning for the recently deceased Queen Victoria, Maude Coleman and Lavinia Waterhouse meet, forging a fast friendship.

Despite their distinct personality differences, Maude being more precocious and contemplative and Lavinia leaning to the impulsive and dramatic, the girls are instantly drawn to each other to the dismay of their mothers. Despite being neighbors, Kitty Coleman and Gertrude Waterhouse occupy different positions in the British class system—the Waterhouses are lower-middle class, while the Colemans are upper-middle class, with a larger house and garden, and live-in servants. The women have little in common, and their views on the changing political climate fall on opposite ends of the spectrum. Kitty looks forward to a more modern society, while the Gertrude reveres the late Queen Victoria and clings to Victorian traditions.

The death of Queen Victoria marked the end of an era. Britain emerged from the shadows of oppressive Victorian values to a more liberal Edwardian lifestyle. With these relaxed social standards came other advances—one of which was the growing interest in the women’s suffragist movement, a topic that divides Kitty and Gertrude, as it did many women of the era. As with most periods of political turmoil, the fight for the right of women to vote had its own victim of change, as felt by both families.

A poignant tale of two families brought reluctantly together, Falling Angels is an intimate story of childhood friendships, sexual awakening and human frailty. Yet its epic sweep takes in the changing of a nation, the fight for women’s suffrage and the questioning of steadfast beliefs.

A Novel

A New York Times bestseller

From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters.

Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives--wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son--Falling Angels is graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).

Falling Angels

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Very nice condition for age 
Small areas of shelf wear by spine edges 

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947 first edition, 263 pages 

In the rugged frontier town of Silver City, Colorado, the Meaney family holds sway over the land, their power extending throughout the wild west. Amidst this tumultuous setting, Dick Meaney, the youngest son, returns home after years in England, accompanied by his tutor. As Dick reunites with his family, he finds himself drawn to the enchanting Mademoiselle, a talented opera singer under the guardianship of the Professor. Their blossoming romance intertwines with the complex dynamics of the Meaney family and the tight-knit community, leading to unexpected revelations and conflicts. Set against the backdrop of the untamed west, 'Colorado' weaves a tale of love, power, and the struggle for survival in a land of rugged beauty.

Colorado

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The spine is in great condition and all pages are intact 

William Morrow & Company, 1953, 594 pages

The bestselling novel about Napoleon's first love
One of the most successful historical romances since GONE WITH THE WIND
Over 20 million copies sold worldwide

To be young, in France, and in love: fourteen year old Desiree can't believe her good fortune. Her fiance, a dashing and ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised for battlefield success, and no longer will she be just a French merchant's daughter. She could not have known the twisting path her role in history would take, nearly breaking her vibrant heart but sweeping her to a life rich in passion and desire.

A love story, but so much more, Désirée explores the landscape of a young heart torn in two, giving readers a compelling true story of an ordinary girl whose unlikely brush with history leads to a throne no one would have expected.

An epic bestseller that has earned both critical acclaim and mass adoration, Désirée is at once a novel of the rise and fall of empires, the blush and fade of love, and the heart and soul of a woman.



Desiree 

Book jacket very brittle - yellowed 

Houghton Mifflin, 1953 book club edition, 375 pages

At some time in life most of us have been involved in the private world of a hospital. The setting of Stephania is a room in a Swedish hospital for the handicapped. It is the account of a critical year in the lives of three patients in Room Number Two and how they are changed by the hospital and by each other.

They are Stephania, a Polish refugee, bitterly determined to have a normal body after the disfigurement from a ghetto and concentration camp. Fröken Nilsson, the provincial spinster whose broken leg cannot bear the gross weight of her secret feedings. And gentle 16-year-old Thura, whose placid acceptance of infantile paralysis keeps her completely immobile.

Stephania is walled in by pride, arrogant in her determination to be cured and contemptuous of those who lack her bitter strength. No one dreamed that it would be she who would effect a positive physical change in the lives of Thura and Fröken Nilsson. And her own cure might be more in spirit than the body.

Stephania 

Small marks on book jacket folds

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961 book club edition, 722 pages 

A Modern Comedy might be called the saga of the younger Forsytes, for it gives the history of the younger generation of that family as superbly as The Forsyte Saga gives the history of their elders. 

The pages of A Modern Comedy- a trilogy consisting of The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and Swan Song - belong primarily to Soames Forsyte's daughter Fleur, her husband Michael Mont, and her cousin and former lover, Jon Forsyte. Their passions reverberate through the trilogy, and in Swan Song the situations foreshadowed in the earlier pages come to an inevitable and tremendous climax. 

In creating the many extraordinary members of the Forsyte family, Galsworthy also drew a fascinating and detailed picture of the British propertied class from the wealth and security of the mid-Victorian era to a post-World War I world of change, strikes, and social malaise. By showing the Forsytes in all their strengths and weaknesses, triumphs and failings, against a detailed background of English life-Parliament, the Courts, the City, sports, philanthropy, art, war-John Galsworthy succeeded in making A Modern 
Comedy, as he did The Forsyte Saga, valuable social history as well. as great fiction.


A Modern Comedy

Brittle book jacket - chipping all around the edges 
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Summit Books, 1985 book club edition, 599 pages

Roddy, Mary Ellen and Hal stand at the heart of this dramatic and eventful novel that spans the nineteenth century. Their lives and the lives of their children are lastingly intertwined with the bitter destiny that is left to all who inherit the Bannaman legacy. 
The Bannaman Legacy is simply Catherine Cookson at her very best. A totally absorbing story of three generations trapped by the past of one man, this wonderful novel will surely add many new readers to the millions who are already devoted Catherine Cookson fans.


The Bannaman Legacy

Discoloration on cloth cover
Staining on bottom corner of first 70 pages 

Tudor Publishing, Co, 1940, 703 pages

Elegant entertainment, this collection of articles, short stories, and what not by some of the leading writers and humorists of the day. George Jean Nathan, Gallico, Hemingway, Lawrence, Steinbeck, Mann, Dreiser, McFee, Caldwell, Sheean, Thorne Smith, Lardner, Pegler, Maurois, are just a few of the contributors. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Bedside Esquire

Cover damage - front cover almost completely off
Cloth cover fading and stained 
Readers copy 

Grosset & Dunlap, 1935, 326 pages 


Green Light starts with the stock market crash in 1929, signalling the beginning of the Great Depression.  The protagonist, a doctor named Newell Paige, is preparing for surgery with his friend and mentor, Dr. Endicott.  The latter, shaken by his financial loss, makes an error in the surgery, resulting in the death of the patient, one Mrs. Dexter, with whom Dr. Paige had grown close over the preceding weeks.  Dr. Paige, hoping to save Dr. Endicott’s reputation, takes the blame and runs off under an assumed name. 

            There are two major plotlines and a few subplots.  The other major plotline deals with Mrs. Dexter’s daughter, Phyllis, who falls for Dr. Paige, meeting him under his assumed name.  But both major plots and almost all the subplots are tied together by Dean Harcourt of Trinity Cathedral, whose philosophy and advice spur on the novel’s other characters. 



Green Light 

Small missing piece of cover at top spine
Pen mark on cover

Peoples Book Club of Chicago, 1952, 503 pages

In Lloyd C. Douglas' literary masterpiece, 'The Big Fisherman,' readers are immersed in a compelling tale set in biblical times. The novel follows the story of Simon Peter, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, exploring his struggles, doubts, and eventual growth in faith. Douglas' writing style is rich in detail, vividly bringing to life the landscapes and cultures of ancient Palestine. The book is a blend of historical fiction and religious narrative, offering a unique perspective on familiar biblical events. With its lyrical prose and emotional depth, 'The Big Fisherman' captivates readers and prompts them to ponder the complexities of faith and human nature. Lloyd C. Douglas' work is a testament to his deep understanding of religious themes and his skill in conveying them through storytelling. His background as a minister lends authenticity to the spiritual journey depicted in the novel, making it a thought-provoking and enlightening read for anyone interested in exploring the intersection of faith and literature. 'The Big Fisherman' is a must-read for those seeking a profound and engaging exploration of biblical characters and themes.



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