Novels

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Company, 2nd pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with orange lettering on the cover and spine, 433 pages. No colophon on title page or copyright page. Red top edge faded. This was Dos Passos' second book -- published when he was just 25 years old, and having spent the end of WWI as a volunteer with the ambulance corps in Spain and Italy during WWI. This is a profoundly anti-war book - and remains a high-water mark of realism in war writing. Second state with the correct "singing" on page 213. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 161 pages, black cloth, book slightly cocked. Dust jacket edgeworn with light chipping. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS ( "Joyce and Irving, with love, Wilson & Margaret 1990") on the title page to Joyce and Irving Adler. The book is heavily annotated and underlined in both ink and light pencil by Joyce who was a literary scholar who wrote two books on Harris.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page, handwritten letter by author laid-in. Minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 360 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows usual wear- now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., reprint, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red cloth covers, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Corner and spine edge wear and fray, overall, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London , Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Kavanagh is actually Julian Barnes. Wrinkle to lamination on dust jacket cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. El Paso, TX, Sweet Earth Flying Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Penned by two of the most famous African American writers of the 1930s, this never-before-published coming-of-age story chronicles the adventures of a 12-year-old Mexican boy, Miguel Del Monte, who joins his uncle in herding wild broncos from northern Mexico to Los Angeles. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this historic tale follows Miguel as he embarks on this unexpected trip across the American Southwest desert, determined to prove himself brave and smart enough to deal with the anticipated hardships. Along with a close encounter with roving bandits and the dangerous forces of nature, Miguel has bittersweet interactions with people of diverse racial and cultural groups, learning important lessons along the way. Separated into concise episodes and reflecting the beauty of various peoples, this collection depicts the power of tolerance and multicultural inclusion.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 359 pages. The author's third book, an historical novel of slavery set in the years just before the Civil War and inspired by the life of Harriet Tubman In 2013, McBride won the National Book Award. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The Fleuri ranch on Colorado's Croom Mountain resembles a scene from the 1880s, save for a few modern conveniences such as a tractor, a refrigerator, and a water pump. Life for the Fleuris, who supplement their meager income with moonshine and illegal game, hasn't changed much either. When a government agent persuades them to turn the ranch into a model 1880s homestead for paying visitors, it seems a perfect solution to their plight, until the deed is done. Greenberg deals realistically with the impact of government regulation, social and cultural change, and affluence on a backwoods family, while treating family members with the tenderness, humor, and dignity that each so richly deserves. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 347 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slight foxing to top edge, else a very nice copy in brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unusual work in that Gallico wrote this not as a sequel to his book THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE but rather as a sequel to the film version. The film featured some plot and character changes which Gallico incorporates into this novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi-cial blood he pours on his "prayer log." There's Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial kill-ers, who troll America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There's the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a taut narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with very minor wear at very edges. A nice copy. The fourth novel by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Updike features Joey Robinson, an advertising consultant in Manhattan who describes the recent visit he, his second wife and his eleven-year-old stepson made to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st thus, ND (1924), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, blue cloth binding with black lettering. Black and white plate frontispiece, black and white plates throughout featuring scenes from the 1924 film starring Milton Sills, rear panel of dust jacket shows scenes from the photoplay of Scaramouche, starring Alice Terry and Roman Novarro. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative cloth in a blue cardboard slipcase. 678 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. This novel tells the story of Molly Gibson as she moves from childhood to womanhood in a complex series of interwoven plots. The sphere of action is small, but the implications are wide and carry truths of universal significance. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 11th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. "Early Novels and Stories" presents the novels and short stories that established Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism with rare verbal eloquence. This volume includes his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), "Giovanni's Room" (1956), and other early works. 970 pages, Remainder mark to bottom edge otherwise like new.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 221 pages. When their friend Tommy Apple dies leaving them a million dollars and unanswered questions about his drug dealings, Joe and Judy Constantine are pressured to cooperate both with Tommy's cronies and with federal agents. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's debut novel. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Charter Books, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages. With a new introduction by the author. Presents the story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. Written in Henry's own words, this funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. First published in 1953. Price blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 181 pages. First appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker. The traditional tale retold. In a series of short chapters the captious heroine is obliquely revealed as a woman regularly pleasured in a shower cubicle by the seven dwarves for whom she performs 'horsewifely' duties; the prince is a fop, and the stepmother is almost an incidental presence in relation to the potently amoral Hogo (one of several 'introduced' characters to the fable). 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.

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, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new. The Speed Queen is the gripping story of a twisted love triangle's drug-fueled killing spree across the desert plains, told in the voice of Oklahoma death-row inmate Marjorie Standiford, who is recounting her experiences for a best-selling horror writer researching the murders. It's a chilling, unputdownable crime novel in the tradition of James M. Cain -- a voyage into the dark soul of the American West.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY. Winner of the Booker Prize. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hartford CT, American Publishing Co, 1st, 1880, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 631 pages. 328 black & white illustrations by various artists. Both hinges cracked. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Soiling to covers. Tears to cloth on spine. Wear to corners, spine.

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. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 319 pages. When his mother dies, thirteen-year-old David is sent to live with his father in a small town in Maine. David is a rebellious and defiant child and doesn't care for his new life. He spends his time hanging out with his friends and exploring the woods. One day, David runs away from home and spends a year hitchhiking and living on the streets of America. At the end of his journey, he returns home and finally learns to love and appreciate his father and family. Clean copy.

Softcover. Champaign IL, Dalkey Archive Press, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 201 pages. Slovenian novel. In an unnamed city shrouded in mist, Valent Kosmina is a retiree living quietly yet discontentedly with his doped-up, TV-addicted wife. To escape the claustrophobia of home and city, he masquerades as a man of means and takes to spending his nights strolling through an opulent suburb - but when news comes of a gruesome murder on his new turf, Kosmina fears that he may be a suspect. Increasingly anxious and paranoid, Kosmina begins to see a mysterious dark-haired girl following him everywhere - and as this succubus takes hold of him, Kosmina finds his familiar city becoming indistinguishable from the landscape of his own nightmares. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Sag Harbor NY, Permanent Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEFILIPPI to fellow author Barry Estabrook on the title page. Fate-driven story of boyhood friendship and its unraveling. A nostalgic revisiting of childhood shenanigans during the 1950's and 60's in a tough section of Long Island called Duck Alley. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 369 pages, cover design by Decorative Designers, 12 b&w illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982. INSCRIBED BY UPDIKE on the front fly leaf: " for Dee- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Harry Angstrom and his friend John Updike". Stated First Edition of Updike's most famous book of the four-part Harry Angstrom saga. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Historical novel of a Boston pastor drawn into the Abolitionist movement. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black cloth stamped in gilt. Contemporary novel of a young couple facing the Great Depression. Several pages with creasing, light soil to covers. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A PEN/Faulkner Award nominated novel. The story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica - the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half African father, abandoned as an infant. INSCRIBED BY KINCAID on the half-title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 248 pages. The book is made up of 18 chapters that form short-stories in themselves, and each usually explores a different character (usually eccentric) or aspect of the life of a FSO - 4, Political Officer, working in the American Embassy in London. A biting, sarcastic, and satirical series of stories. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter-day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island. Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Ata Books, 1st pbk, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 303 pages. A fictionalized account of the relationship between Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Ribeiro de Duarte, the fiery Brazilian girl who left her husband to fight beside Garibaldi in South America and Italy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark blue lettering, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 401 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. No markings.

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Daye Press, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket ($2.00 on flap), 183 pages, b&w illustrations by Allen Congden, Introduction by Walter Hard. The semi-autobiographical novel of city dweller making a living on a farm in Vermont. Written during the Great Depression. Scarce, especially in this great condition. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Paris Review Editions/Doubleday, 1st, 1969, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 284 pages. The first of only two published novels by this Kansas-born author (1930-2008), a ribald satire that became a small-scale literary cause celebre after an excerpt published in The Paris Review in 1967 ignited a somewhat bizarre censorship attempt in the Long Island town of South Farmingdale, N.Y.; in the course of the kerfuffle, TPR editor George Plimpton interceded to speak out against the censorship, and subsequently agreed to published the full novel under the Paris Review Editions imprint. Better known as a poet and essayist, Wiebe enjoyed a long teaching career at the University of Cincinnati; at least one critic has declared his work to be in the same darkly comic literary vein as that of Laurence Sterne, Franz Kafka, William S. Burroughs and Flannery O'Connor. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red and blue cloth with black stamping, 334 pages. Clean copy. Portraying the dark, authoritarian side of the utopian dream, this classic novel tells the story of the Reverend Harmston, a man devoted to building a microsociety in which there is a balance between the order that is necessary to produce livelihood and the freedom to fully explore sexuality. Setting up a commune in the remote Guyanese forest with the creed, "Hard work, frank love, and wholesome play," the reverend attempts to construct an ideal society that opens up cross-cultural dialogue between the spirit of European enlightenment and the culture of the native Amerindians. Underneath its generally comic tone, however, there are notes of a darker spirit at play--such as Harmston's unquestioned authority and the brutal punishments he hands out--that eerily foreshadow the actual 1978 Jonestown Massacre, a violent event that occurred 27 years after the novel's initial publication.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with $2.95 on flap. No date on title page, copyright 1954 on copyright page, no other printings. Front fly leaf missing so book opens to half-title page. Otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, Book Club Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 2nd pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf.. The author's first novel. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A very handsome edition of The Marble Faun, otherwise known as Transformation: Or The Romance of Monte Beni. The work was written on the eve of the American Civil War and is set in Italy. The work combines gothic literature, travel guides and fables. Two matching volumes, 292 + 280 pages. Title page states 1860. Bound in full vellum with leather ties, gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered parchment. Copyright Edition stated on title page of each volume and Printing Office of the Publisher on page 292 of volume one. twenty-six albumen photographic plates of contemporary Rome to 'Volume One' and twenty three to 'Volume Two'. Covers splayed as is common with this edition. Clean copies.