Novels

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with blue lettering, 309 pages. Historical novel set in New Bedford takes up the story of Russell Ashmead, the mildly rebellious middle son of a prosperous New Bedford family, when he is in his late teens, and follows him to the brink of old age. Over the course of the book he assists the escape of a fugitive from enslavement, sails as a foremast hand on a whaling ship, and is witness to fraud, riot, mutiny, and murder. He experiences romance at home and abroad, manages a textile mill, and becomes a shipowner. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 158 pages. One of Henry Williamson's lesser-known novels: a cart horse and two monkeys decide they want to have a go at winning the Epson Derby. Dust jacket profoundly worn., tape repaired. Name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with some chipping. A novel of intrigue set in post World War II North Africa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. Hes also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robins emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mothers brain With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and sons ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers' most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet? Powers' thirteenth novel, his first since winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Overstory. BEWILDERMENT was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear. Psuedo. of Julian Barnes.

Softcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 253 pages, First edition, trade paperback issued simultaneous with the hardcover. Crowe's first book, for which he spent a year "undercover" as a student in high school despite being twenty two. The book inspired the popular movie of the same name. Crowe also wrote the screenplay for the popular and funny movie directed by Amy Heckerling, the film debut of Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz, Forest Whitaker, and Anthony Edwards. First book by the Academy Award-winning writer and director of such films as *Jerry McGuire* and *Almost Famous*. Spine is slightly cocked, mild wear, no markings.

Hardcover. Cologne , Simon L'Africane, 1st, 1676, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, contemporary calf binding, rebacked with gilt lettering on leather spine. 91 pages, FRENCH TEXT. Cast of characters listed on last printed page (actually pg. 93) with 1 inch gone from bottom, not affecting text. A fictionalized account of Charles II's affair with Lady Castlemaine.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 306 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Maisie Danston, a rich, sexy senior at Dartmouth College, has everything. brains, beauty and a boyfriend. But Teddy Leskovitch becomes obsessed with her, spying on her at every opportunity until his overwhelming desire drives him to kidnap her in a wild, desperate attempt to prove his love. The author's first novel.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 201 pages. A man's obsession with his late wife takes a new turn when he meets an uncompromising, manipulative playwright whose favored theme is death. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 337 pages. unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover, with minor rubbing. Remainder mark to top edge. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. The memorable Arkansas town from the perspective of its smallest denizens.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1960, Hardcover, 336 pages, b&w drawings by Lea. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Novel about Hank Spurling, a Marine hero of the war in the Pacific, who returned to the Cloudrock Mountains in Wyoming. In the early days of World War II, Lea became a war correspondent for Life magazine, executing paintings of action in the North Atlantic, the South Pacific, China, North Africa, and Europe. Lea's career thereafter involved both painting and writing, on a variety of subjects but generally reflective of his roots in the Southwest. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Carroll and Graf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 301 pages. Author Chris Bohjalians 2nd book. Some edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with light fading to spine. Internally very good. Marcia Middleton finds the body of her husband, Brian, hanging from the attic rafters of their new house in Deering, Vt. Relocated New Yorkers, the couple had moved only a month before--shortly after Brian had confessed to an adulterous affair. An autopsy reveals that the victim was dead before his body was hoisted. Once the police learn about Brian's indiscretion and his wife-beating, they label Marcia a murder suspect.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 350 numbered hardcover copies, signed by Paul Bowles [# 78]. . A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES (on limitation page). Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 406 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a br5ight, unclipped dust jacket. First edition of author's first book. Pulitzer Prize finalist. Well conceived and well written, this book examines the tragedy of a man whose life epitomizes failure on every level. A victim of circumstances, Peter Jernigan is now emotionally crippled and psychologically impoverished. His already distorted personal relationships, skewed further by a dependency on alcohol, sweep him forward, with horrifying swiftness, into a nightmarish cycle of failure, loss, and spiritual death. Bright but unsuccessful, Jernigan drifts through a bleak life that only becomes worse. He has lost his father and wife in successive accidents and now must deal with the adolescent traumas of his only son. His encounter with the divorced mother of his son's girlfriend promises to lighten his life but instead complicates it even further. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Secker and Warburg, 1st UK, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Author's 1st book of fiction, and 2nd under his name. Rear of dust jacket with water stain - book unaffected. Publisher's stamp on front flyleaf stating "Showroom Sample." Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 309 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Oneiric Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 295 pages. West's unfinished novel, the subsequent chapters following This Real Night. A feminist novel that reveals both the problems of marriage and the ecstasies of sexual love, completing the final chapters of the saga that began with THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS, and continued with THIS REAL NIGHT. Afterword by Victoria Glendinning. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The critically acclaimed, award-winning lawyer/author's follow-up book to his "Wartime Lies" debut. The story of the last two years of Ben's life, told by his closest friend, Jack, who pieces the facts together from his own memory and from the personal papers that come into his possession as executor of Ben's will. It is the story, most particularly, of Ben's tumultuous love affair with Jack's cousin Veronique, a woman whose dazzling beauty masks darkness and disquiet. Wi th Veronique, Ben discovers "the vast bliss of being loved." But when her husband learns of the affair and a commitment to Veronique is required, Ben discovers his own fragility-and the brutal hold his past has on him." Clean copy.

Softcover. Pomeroy OH, Carpenter Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, illustrated by David Lynas. Includes numerous black and white photos of attractive female nudes. Ribald adventure in the style of Henry Miller. Johnson's second novel to be published, though the third to be written, takes up the whole issue of who gets published and why. It takes as its main subject the uproarious literary politics of the late 60's, when the government first set up the National Endowment for the Arts, and fools and crooks and serious editors asked for money to keep small-scale literary operations afloat in a sea of conglomerate-owned houses and declining public taste. One of the best parts is the description of the first COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers) meeting. The two main characters, a truck driver named Gasserpod Peasporr Slocum, and his mentor, a small magazine editor, Ellis Schoenobatic, take us on a marvelous tour of the USA, into all the current scenes -- political, artistic, sexual -- and finally back to Sausalito and the girl they left behind. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped (13.95) dust jacket that has fading to spine and a 2 X 3" chunk gone from bottom of spine and rear panel. Midnight's Children chronicles modern India through the lives of the one thousand and one children born within the country's first hour of independence on August 15, 1947. First edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel, also acclaimed as the Booker of Bookers. Stated First Edition, preceding the English edition which was made up from the American sheets. NOTE: Publisher's remainder stamp to bottom edge. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Allen Lane, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989. Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political sabotage'. He was arrested in 1989, but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden and New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower. Two lines underlined in Preface, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Spiegelman. Clean, tight copy. The quintessential hardboiled twenties poem, basis for two stage musicals and a 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch. Remainder dot to top edge.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 338 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY FFORDE on the title page "Jasper" with his blue Goliath Publishing stamp at the bottom of the page. The third novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series is "great fun-especially for those with a literary turn of mind and a taste for offbeat comedy" (The Washington Post Book World). Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 1st Edition, second issue with chiince bugs corrected to chince bugs on page 60. Color frontispiece by Clarence Underwood. Willa Cather's first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by "The Song of the Lark" (1915), and "My Antonia" (1918). Date of 1913 on title page. Rear flyleaf with remnants of library checkout list with glue stain. Otherwise a clean, tight copy with light soil to light tan cloth.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. The story takes place in a small Czech town when a girl was arrested for stealing flowers from a cemetery to give to her lover as a gift. Book has seven parts: Ludvik, Helena, Ludvik, Jaroslav, Ludvik, Kostka and Ludvik, Jaroslav, Helena. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 308 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Missing front fly leaf, clean copy.

Hardcover. Bristol, England, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1st Edition, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover. Arrowsmith's 3/6 Series, Vol. XVIII. Hand-written letter from author [dated 27th Febry. /(18)95] laid in and attached to front flyleaf. In the letter, Hope mentions another book in comparison to this volume. Date of publication not indicated within, but correspondence accompanying and mentioning volume is dated 1895. Spine slightly cocked. Deep maroon cloth, gilt title on spine(slightly faded) and front cover board (still bright), boards have some rubbing, agewear, very light fraying at corners of boards, spine has chipping to top and bottom. Pages and edges have tanning from age. Some chipping to hinges of front and back endpapers, binding not affected. In very good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 342 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 479 pages. Predestined, Whitman's first and most successful novel, is a remarkably con-trolled, inexorably plotted story of Felix Piers, born to wealth and misfortune, who was predestined to a life of failure. The rich, varied background of New York City's many sides provides the compelling backdrop to this deterministic novel. First published in 1910, one of the titles in the Lost American Fiction Series. The author is an over-looked American literary naturalist whose Predestined compares favorably with the work of Frank Norris. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1913, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 396 pages. 'The Heart of the Hills' is the last novel completed by John Fox Jr. and the final piece in his mountain trilogy. This companion to The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is crucial to an understanding of Fox's views. He believed mountain people were exploited by outside industrialists. Frontis plate plus six more all by artist F. C. Yohn. Very bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Like new and SIGNED BY MICHAELS at the 2003 Breadloaf Writer's Conference.

Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions CLub, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in forest-green cloth, spine stamped in gilt with printed label attached. Introduction by Norman H. Strouse with color and b&w illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Copy #794 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Wells felt that this was his best novel. Very good in a bright yellow slipcase with some darkening to one area.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth with dark blue lettering, decoration in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 366 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name on front fly leaf in pencil, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. Unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover with the flaps glued to cover. Won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a best first novel in 1988

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Co., 2nd pr., 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in white, front cover designed in dark blue, red & white. Frontispiece and 5 inserted plates in b&w by W.J. Aylward. Top edge gilt. This is what is considered the second state, with the spine lettered in white; the first state has gilt lettering on the spine. A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea-Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar, Humphrey Van Weyden, who is rescued by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. The Sea-Wolf also introduces Jack London's most memorable, fully realized character, Wolf Larsen, the schooner's brutal captain, who ruthlessly crushes anyone standing in his way. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Small, short tear to spinr cloth.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 428 pages. "Published June 6, 1934 First and Second Printings before Publication" on copyright page. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. The first volume in Mann's great tetralogy, telling the story of the Biblical Joseph's rise as a statesman in Egypt, his conduct during the epic famine, and his restoration to his father Jacob. Bookplate on inside front cover, small notation on rear dj flap, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original gilt-blocked decorated dark green cloth in slipcase. 172 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Angela Thirlwell. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams. The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula. Clean, fresh copy.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nominated for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.-the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream-who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. A brilliant, action-packed re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. Copyright pages states First Edition with the number 10 above it, so a later printing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 377 pages. Dust jacket art and four b&w illustrations by W. H. D. Koerner. Bottom quarter of spine gone, short blue mark to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition, 1st printing, of this famed Hannibal Lecter & Clarice Starling thriller, later made into the movie starring Jodi Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd Ed., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover on a worn and tape-repaired dust jacket. A nice copy of the 2nd edited version of Billy Budd, a Melville tale unfinished at the time of his death and left in a rough, unassembled condition. Its first publication was considered rushed and this 2nd version was much more painstakingly edited, and bears much editorial discussion and includes the first publication of the short story on which the novel was based. Book is very good, clean. The dj not so much.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown patterned cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in slipcase. Maya Angelou's autobiographical account of her childhood and early youth growing up in 1930's America, is an evocation of a black girl's struggle against her oppressors. A great American classic, Maya Angelou's powerful and perceptive memoir forged a path for Black American women's writing and made her an international icon. Written in 1969, it recounts her early experiences as a woman of color in the segregated Deep South where, surrounded by bigotry and poverty, daily life was lived on a knife-edge.

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 270 pages, very good in a rubbed dust jacket with light edgewear. Mailer's fourth novel and seventh book describes thirty-two hours in the life of college professor and war hero Stephen Rojack during a 1960s existential journey on Manhattan's East Side.

Hardcover. NY, Phoenix Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edge wear. A pulp romance from World War II about an office love affair. Clean copy.