Novels

Hardcover. Ardmore PA, Dorrance and Co., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Inscribed to Roger Shattuck, literary critic and historian, w/ letter and postcard laid in. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Aloft offers a reexamination of the American dream from the inside out, through the voice of Jerry Battle, a suburban middle-aged man who has lived his entire life on Long Island, New York. Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane solo; slipping away for quick flights over the Island or to the coastal towns of New England, Jerry has been disappearing for years. Then a family crisis occurs, and Jerry finds he must face his disengagement in his relationships: with his deceased wife, the circumstances of whose death he has never fully accepted; with his former girlfriend, whom he still longs for; with his daughter, who refuses to address the disease that threatens her life; with his son, who is in danger of losing the family business; and with his father, whom he has placed in a nursing home. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth stamped in black. 313 pages, an attractive reprint of this western title with 4 color plates by Frank Tenny Johnson. Originally published in 1914. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with publisher's review slip laid in. Originally published in 1936 and reprinted after the success of Kantor's great novel, Andersonville, and renewed interest in the Civil War period. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago/NY, Rand McNally, 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrapper, 367 pages. No. 57 in the Oriental Library. Chip to paper spine.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st thus, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and tanned dust jacket, first edition thus. Translated by T.W. Earp and G.W. Stonier. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. Flaubert's last novel, an unfinished comedy of two clerks who set out to educate themselves. 348 pages. Followed by the author's supplemental work: The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas, translated and edited by Jacques Barzun, 86 pages.

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 404 pages, color frontispiece and 3 duo-tone plates by J.N. Marchand. With the scarce dustjacket, light edgewear, chipping to corners. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small dent on cover and red dot sticker on last page, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Stone and Kimball, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Gilt decoration and title on front and back covers. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners.

Hardcover. London, England, j.W. Arrowsmith, 1st Edition, 1898 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece, illustrations throughout by illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson. Tanning from age throughout, pages untrimmed, deckled. Letter from the author dated "17th Sept: 03" laid in (see image), possibly to William Heinemann. Green cover boards, gilt title on spine, front cover. Some agewear to spine top and bottom. Binding very good, spine straight. Very good condition.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Silver gilt ornate decoration on front and spine. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Light soil on bottom spine, and light edgewear on edges. A period story set in the Okefenokee Swamp with illustrations by E.W. Kemble, including three images showing black people, and one scene of a dog fighting a cougar.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 185 pages. Clean copy.

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. NY, Ward & Drummond, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt, 418 pages, 6 b&w plates by Helen Strong. Mild rubbing, edgewear to covers. A novel extolling the temperace movement. Clean copy.

NY, Random House, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream. The unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfed A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. Novel set in a small town in Maine. Made into an HBO mini-series with Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt and Paul Newman.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt lettering, 380 pages. Edgar Watson Howe (May 3, 1853 - October 3, 1937) was an American novelist and newspaper and magazine editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was perhaps best known for his magazine, E.W. Howe's Monthly, which he wrote from 1911 to 1933. His first novel, The Story of a Country Town (1883), was also his best-known. Howe's subsequent novels were neither critically nor popularly successful. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover Limited edition (No. 1075 of 1500 copies). Signed by the illustrator on the Limitation Page. Quarter bound in publisher's brown leather over gilt embossed khaki boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt mystic maze decoration on covers. Illustrated with 16 full-page, full-color plates (including two double-page spreads) hand-colored by Frank Hudec, as well as in-text drawings, historiated initials, and head and tail-pieces by Robin Jacques. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Slipcase with light wear, soil. Book very good with a mild misty odor.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A massive novel illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner. John Gardner's final novel follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and perhaps going completely mad. During his personal descent, which he seems powerless to arrest, he somehow scrounges enough money together to buy a farmhouse in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, which seems to be haunted by the ghosts of an incestuous family. Mickelsson's farmhouse sanctuary was (it turns out) not only the residence of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, but the scene of a murder; the place is haunted. 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, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by John Lambert. A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world. Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrere revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrere ferries readers through his "doors" into the biblical narrative. Once inside, he follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith's founding. Shouldering biblical scholarship like a camcorder, Carrere re-creates the climate of the New Testament with the acumen of a seasoned storyteller, intertwining his own account of reckoning with the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with Nobel Prize sticker on front, 992 pages. The Nobel Prize-winners richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in New York City, Mailer's first novel in 10 years explores the dark side of the American Dream over a 32-hour time period in the life of Stephen Richards Rojack--war hero/college professor/talk show host/husband--and murderer. Originally serialized in Esquire magazine in slightly different form in 1964, this is the First Edition in book form from 1965. The basis for a film starring Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh. Name on first blank page, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Publisher's $2.50 price at the top of the front flap; previous owner's name and address on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Short tape repairs to verso of dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark green 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.

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DIMMICK on the title page. Like a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of TV's Law and Order, this second novel from Dimmick (following In the Presence of Horses) describes the aftermath of a horrendous physical attack at a Rhode Island school. In this particular incident, a knife-wielding student has disfigured teacher Zoe Muir. Unable to return to business-as-usual, she moves to northern Vermont, buys an unfinished house in the woods, and attempts to reconstruct her life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FFORDE on the title page, signed "Jasper". Postcard for Sommeworld laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 358 pages. A Baton Rouge matron flees to Jersey City to start life anew, only to find herself in a no-man's-land of rent strikes, hired thugs, and life-threatening potholes -- in this earthy comedy by Sharp. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book Club Ed., 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt stamping. 1066 pages. A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of nineteenth-century America with timeless resonance. Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life -- from the battles of the Civil War to the politics of the Gilded Age, from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. This panoramic epic of the nineteenth century in Raintree County--particularly of the Civil War and its effects -- was produced after six years of research, writing, and revision. It continues to command attention and respect as a stylistically unique work of considerable force. Gutter crack at title page, sound, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Arlington Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 235 pages. First volume in the Gurney trilogy. Adventures on the high seas. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillian & Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Good, 2 volume set, identical beige cloth covers stamped in green and gilt. Volume 1 with a frontis. of the author. Mary Augusta Ward CBE (nee Arnold; 11 June 1851 - 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. This novel is a Victorian family saga, focused on a family estate, a spurned lover, and a devious villain. Marcella Boyce is young, bright, and taken with socialism. When her parents inherit the family estate in the country Marcella takes up the miserable conditions of the local workforce as her cause. She falls in love with the local favorite son, a Conservative, vying for a seat in Parliament. Socialist Marcella must discover if she can live with a man with different politics, and her feelings on the issue threaten to damage a number of lives. Spines darkened. Previous owner's name on the title pages of both volumes, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, yellow and gilt. Top edge gilt, 276 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. First published in 1902 this is the Second Edition. Bookplate on front fly leaf, name on half title page. Light soil to covers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Horace Liveright, 2nd pr., 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red and gilt, 323 pages. Red topstain, with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by the author. Copyright page states: Second printing, September 1928. The first printing was in August. Barnes played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village in the teens. Ryder draws heavily on her childhood experiences in Cornwall-on-Hudson. It covers 50 years of her family's history. Fragments of the Ryder family chronicle are interspersed with children's stories, songs, letters, poems, parables, and dreams. The book changes style from chapter to chapter, parodying writers from Chaucer to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Spine darkened, light shelf-wear. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 844 pages, green cloth covers with dark green design, lettering. Cover shows wear, light soil. Internally clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear and soiling to pictorial dust jacket, protected by clear mylar cover, else a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt title on cover and spine. 342 pages. Spine is cocked, faded. The book is a bit shaken but clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ACTRESS DEMI MOORE on title page. Moore portrayed the character Erin Grant in the film adaptation. Mild fading to dust jacket spine. Light edgewear to dust jacket as well, mostly to fore edge corners. In a protective plastic sleeve. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st American Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 253 pages. Hardcover. Blue cover boards, pink title on spine, boards in excellent condition. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, wrapped in clear, plastic mylar for protection. Pages have some very light tanning, unmarked. "Sansom has coupled his storyteller's art with his incomparable and lucent style."

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A novel about the author Henry James that attracted praise from reviewers nationwide. It's a bold writer indeed who dares to put himself inside the mind of novelist Henry James, but that is what Toibin, highly talented Irish author of The Heather Blazing and The Blackwater Lightship, has ventured here, with a remarkable degree of success. The book is a fictionalized study, based on many biographical materials and family accounts, of the novelist's interior life from the moment in London in 1895 when James's hope to succeed in the theater rather than on the printed page was eclipsed by the towering success of his younger contemporary Oscar Wilde. Thereafter the book ranges seamlessly back and forth over James's life, from his memories of his prominent Brahmin family in the States-including the suicide of his father and the tragic early death of his troubled sister Alice-to his settling in England, in a cherished house of his own choosing in Rye. Along the way it offers hints, no more, of James's troubled sexual identity, including his fascination with a young English manservant, his (apparently platonic) night in bed with Oliver Wendell Holmes and his curious obsession with a dashing Scandinavian sculptor of little talent but huge charisma. Another recurrent motif is James's absorption in the lives of spirited, highly intelligent but unhappy young women who die prematurely, which helped to inform some of his strongest fiction. The subtlety and empathy with which Toibin inhabits James's psyche and captures the fleeting emotional nuances of his world are beyond praise, and even the echoes of the master's style ring true.

Hardcover. Toronto CA, McClelland & Stewart, 1st Canadian, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 312 pages. "An Englishman's home may be his castle, but to Sir Buckstone Abbott, Walsinford Hall was nothing but a blot on the landscape. With its glazed red bricks, its dome and minarets, it so jarred upon his sensitive soul that it was his avowed intention to unload the unsightly pile on the first prospective buyer. His chance came when the Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek expressed the opinion that the Hall was 'cute' and began toying with the idea of purchasing it." Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st UK, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 415 pages. The adventures through the world of Hamo Langmuir, grower of 'magic' rice, and his god-daughter Alexandra Grant -a novel of sexual intrigue and the search for meaning. Explores the growth of interest in the irrational during the 1960s, and the deep but conflicted relationship between East and West. as if my a

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that's price-clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KESSLER on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black and white with a collie and her pup on the cover. 36 pages, 4 color plates by W.T. Smedley. Story told from a dog's perspective. Light fading to spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $2.50 on flap, 304 pages. Stated First Edition with M-I code on copyright page. Title-page printed in red and black. Original gray cloth lettered in black, backstrip decorated in red and lettered in black. "George Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois and into the soul of America itself."

Hardcover. London, Citadel Press, 1st illust thus, 1948, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cream jacket decorated in black and green. With 12 black and white woodcuts by Helen Munro.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thirty years after leaving Eunola, Mississippi, to pursue her dreams of becoming a dancer, Leland Standard returns with her son, and a dinner party given in her honor brings to light the secrets, desires, and life stories of the guests. Clean copy.

Softcover. Reno NV, University of Nevada Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 211 pages. Neider's novel has been praised as one of the great westerns of all time, up there with "Shane" and "The Ox-Box Incident". It loosely follows the facts of the Billy the Kid story, but it is not intended as a retelling of that story. It is written in the style of a person-to-person narrative as told by the man who shot the Kid. INSCRIBED BY NEIDER on the front fly leaf. Clean copy. First published in 1956, the book was the basis of Marlon Brando's only directing effort, "One-Eyed Jacks", which the author covers in his Preface.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A riveting, suspenseful read. The story follows the aftermath of a brutal home invasion that leaves one family dead and another struggling to rebuild. As the investigation unfolds, the reader is plunged into the heart of the family's lives and is left wondering who could have committed such a heinous act.