Novels

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch , 1st UK, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt. Red pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 423 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy. With "humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" (The Times, London), Janice Galloway's Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. In her lifetime, Clara was a celebrated concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -- as well as mother of the eight Schumann children and caretaker of her husband through a series of crippling mental illnesses. In its luminous integrity the novel brings Clara Schumann to life as a woman of genius. Galloway is at once a meticulous researcher of her subjects' remarkable and highly dramatic artistic careers and a virtuoso storyteller whose imagination and empathy lead her to that place off limits to history and biography -- inside the human mind. Distilling the memories, poetry, and musical notes therein, she examines the ways artists divine patterns out of life's chaos. "Passion," writes Galloway of Clara's performance philosophy, "one might take for granted -- its control is the mechanism through which all else flows." Though music may have bent to Clara's will, love served her far more tragically. Dismissing the cliches of Great Art and rejecting the romantic conflation of Madness and Creativity, Clara boldly ventures that in a life marred by alienation and isolation, "Work alone endures."

Softcover. London, Faber & Fabet, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. INSCRIBED BY HAMILTON on title page. 1st pub. in hardcover in 1991. Light wear to wraps.

Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with bright, unclipped dust jacket, 286 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 201 pages, b&w drawings by Brad Holland. Light edge wear, soiling to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. Lovely copy. Like new.

Hardcover. London, John Leighton, 1st, 1845, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 579 pages. Brown cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design on spine. Edge wear, rubbing to covers; spine faded. End papers wrinkled. Hinges starting to crack. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Utah, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Clean inside. From the dust jacket front flap: "In his latest book,..., Cheuse once again presents a vividly rendered gallery of characters traversing a shifting moral landscape, this time the 'new' South and West of the eighties."

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 254 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean and bright except for faded spine lettering.

Hardcover. The Overlook Press, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 730 pages. Translated from the German by Donald O. White. Set in Spain during the 1930s. English Language.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated with many line drawings by William Glackens. Khaki cloth with black, red and grey cover illustration, illustrated frontispiece, 261 pages. Hinge cracked at half-title page, otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 148 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, minor wear and soiling to white dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. Winner of the Booker Prize.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages. Minor foxing to top edge, else like new in clear brodart cover. "An electrifying, magnificently and hilariously dark novel about an army and subculture wallowing in peacetime, Buffalo Soldiers catches the martial spin of history much as Catch-22 and Dog Soldiers did in their day."

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Previous owner's gift label on front flyleaf. Tan, speckled cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, a touch of tanning from age, a couple of very small tears (barely noticeable--see image) at top along edge of dj. Part New England gothic, part fantasy, and pure rollicking adventure story, this book traces the history of a unique clan of hardy Vermonters who have survived in Kingdom County, near the Canadian border, for several generations.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, has "Signed First Edition" sticker on front cover. Blue, marbled cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. An exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events--a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

Softcover. Rochester, NY, Austen Press, 1st trade, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, with drawing. Black and white comics throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Doris Lessing's 1974 novel in which a woman watches the world sink into barbarism,'.where people huddle together in tribes for self-defense.'

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray textured boards with red cloth spine stamped in black. No dust jacket. Suspense and action in post-war Vienna. True First which preceded the UK edition. Source for the film noir directed by Carol Reed starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Greene wrote the story specifically to frame the film and had originally not intended it to be published. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Reminder line on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, brown boards with green letting on the front cover and the spine. Dust jacket is fair only with tape repairs, chipping and a chunk gone from bottom of spine. Novel about the Quaker City Quakers, a major league team closely based on the Whiz Kids-the Philadelphia Phillies, with the main characters of the book closely based on the real Whiz Kids. For instance, Phillie coach Bennie Bengough was portrayed as Bennie Benson, Robin Roberts as Rossiter, Richie Ashburn as Robbie Ashton, etc. O'Rourke made no attempts to hide the connection. The book is dedicated to the Phillies, and O'Rourke thanks many of the Phillies by name in the introduction. Name in bold pencil on front fly leaf, otherwise clean

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 333 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand, McNally, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Derby & Jackson, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 401 pages with 8 pages of advertisements. 2 illustrations before title page. Brown embossed cover with gilt title and decoration to spine. Wear to back cover. Soiling to edges. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf and rear pastedown.

Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 522 pages (Vol. I) and 528 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 56 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. Frayed wear to spine tops (more so on Vol. 1). Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Signed with upper case signature JASPER to the title page. Complete with 2 limited edition postcards (Dodo Manual/Speed Camera Photo), upgrade and instruction leaflet for upgrade. Very light age toning to the text block although this is an as-new, unread copy. The first of the "Thursday Next" novels. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2006-12-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Toronto CA, Doubleday Canada, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jack won the Leacock Humour Award for his Bandy series. It's 1924, and Bandy is making a solo flight across the Atlantic in the Gander, a seaplane of his own design. Not for fame though - he's fleeing from arrest for train robbery, from his job as Minister of Defence, and from his would-be assassin and friend George Garanine. From Iceland, to Iraq, to St. Pancreas Hospital in London, Bandy's career has never been more complicated, or his luck more of a roller coaster. When he finds new employment as Deputy Supreme Being of a mercenary air force, Bandy begins to feel that the whole British Empire has a grudge against him. But at least the pay is good.

Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A first novel about Moses Highness, brought up in an English village that nobody had ever left. Moses moves to London and begins to unearth the bizarre and chilling secrets of his past, of his mother who ate raw yeast to rise out of her misery and his father who stayed in bed for 15 years. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, John W. Lovell Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 539 pages. Hardcover. Decorated covers, gilt title on spine. bound in green fabric. Former library book with remaining markings, seals and residual labels. Spine broken on back endpapers, but still intact. Pages and edges age-yellowed. Covers in good shape with some chipping/fraying to edges and spine top and bottom. In excellent condition for its age.

Hardcover. New York, Robert Bonner's Sons, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 346 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Covers bound in navy blue. Decorated endpapers. Former library book with residual labels, seals and markings. Covers bound in navy blue, some age wear: fraying to top and bottom of spine, corners of covers, yellowing to pages and edges, spine broken at front and back endpapers and frontispeice, but still intact. In very good condition for its age.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1st , 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 79 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Merle Johnson. Paper on spine chipped. Light lettering on spine. Some wear to front cover. All pages clean and legible. Gutter cracked.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine and front panel. Decorated front panel. Gilted top text block. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by noted illustrator A.B. Frost. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Heavy bumping to all board corners, all edges slightly frayed. Mild fading and age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement."

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Constable & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 54 pages. #514 of 1025 copies. B&w and some color illustrations by Clare Winsten. Cloth pictorial boards. Gilt lettering along spine. Gilt top edge. Some tinting to end papers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light rubbing to corners. Clean, tight copy. Janvier"s last book, published shortly after his death in 1913, a humorous and affectionate look at a piece of the New York City he so loved. In the preface, Ripley Hitchcock describes the "Casa Napoleon" as a "very definite haven for wanderers of Latin origin which for several years opened hospitable doors upon a side-street near lower Fifth Avenue. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 black and white plates.

Hardcover. New York, Neely, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. One small stamp at lower left corner of inside front cover. Front hinge cracked but holding. Minor foxing to areas of cloth cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Eight b&w plates by illustrator (not credited). Decorated yellow cloth covers with light soil, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. 290 pages, in very good condition.

hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Paul Quinn. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C McClurg & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers with light wear, fading. IIllustrated by Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, barcode sticker on back dust jacket cover, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 321 pages, with 80 illustrations by F. H. Townsend. Gilt titles. Corner and spine edge wear, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. Orange cloth covered boards with black graphic & orange titles to cover & spine. Frontis illustration, "....Let that hand down slowly, keeping it away from that gun," in black & white. Original dust jacket with the same illustration in full color, tears to edges, now protected with a plastic sleeve. Tight binding, light age toning, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, Page and Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages, b&w illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Cream colored covers with illustrated label pasted on front. Top edge gilt , clean.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages. Brown pictorial cover, gilt design, gilt lettering on spine. 10 color Illustrations by H. T. Dunn. Frontispiece illustration. Ilustrated end papers. Small pen marking on front end paper.