Novels

Hardcover. NY, W. J. Watt and Company, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a scarce, early Wodehouse title. Green/black cover with round color illustration label on cover and gilt lettering; published "May" on copyright page indicating the first edition; 314 pages. illustrated by Will Grefe with a color frontis and four black and white plates. Very Good, clean copy with mild shelf wear.

Hardcover. London, Theophilus Barrios, 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather binding with gilt border design and gilt initials "PPP" on upper and rear cover. All edges gilt. Volume published in London and sold in Paris. 460 pages plus a 4 page catalog of English books to be had at the Paris store. Includes a brief life of the author. Solid binding, text pages with some waviness, ink name on title page and dated 1829. Otherwise clean. Edgewear to cover edges, corners.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black/green spine with gilt lettering; first Scribner's edition with 'A' to copyright page; no jacket. 913 pages, clean, tight copy. A fictionalized autobiography, using the name Eugene Gant for Wolfe's, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time the character attends Harvard University, moves to New York City and teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with the character Francis Starwick. Francis Starwick was based on Wolfe's friend, playwright Kenneth Raisbeck. The novel was published by Scribners and edited by Maxwell Perkins.The narrative of Of Time and the River closely follows the events of Wolfe's own life from 1920 to 1925.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1050, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in yellow. No dust jacket. Clean copy. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla. English forces, under Lord Nelson, are all but paralyzed-not knowing the size, strength, or time of the foreign onslaught. In a brilliant yet daring spy scheme to protect Britain's shores, Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage is chosen to plumb the secrets of the French High Command-and the penalty for failure is the guillotine. Pages tanning. Otherwise a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original pale blue boards with darkening at backstrip, silver lettering on spine. 252 pages. First UK printing. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with a bright gilt design, 66 pages. Top edges gilt. Two color illustrations by Schoonover tipped in. A novel of a World War I soldier and Joan of Arc.

NY, Knopf, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on blank prelim page, Clean copy. A wildly exuberant, wily new novel about a race that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country (and continent) as it does about the three audacious individuals who take part.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Adding to a fiction chronicle that has already spanned American history from the Lincoln assassination to the Watergate scandal, Thomas Mallon now brings to life the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president in modern times. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers wth gilt stamping. A University Professor is drawn into a plot to kill the Prime Minister. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Small, Maynard & Co., reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with gilt title box, 312 pages. Early printing of this mystery set in the world of international opera. Light shelf wear, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Black cloth covers with faded gilt title. 126 pages with frontispiece illustration in 2-colors by Robert Locher. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Firbank's first book published in the United States, a novel of West Indian life and manners. It was the first of his works that wasn't entirely self-financed, and despite the miniscule print run, the book was given a lavish treatment by Brentano's, published with a generous introduction by Carl Van Vechten, who was intent on making Firbank's work better known in America. Understandably, the inflammatory title roused an outcry in the African American press, though Nancy Cunard wrote a defense of Firbank and his use of the name in the Associated Negro Press, and the novel received a surprisingly positive review by W.E.B. Du Bois. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple and black boards with black lettering on the spine label. 162 pages, b&w frontispiece by Ray Garnett (his first wife, Rachel 'Ray' Garnett). Top edge gilt. Tells the fictional story of the racism and hostility experienced by an interracial couple in Victorian Dorset. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with orange cloth spine, paper spine label chipped. First printing with Doran logo on copyright page. With a preface by Hilaire Belloc, 333 pages. "Bramah attained commercial and critical success with his creation of Kai Lung, an itinerant storyteller. He first appears in The Wallet of Kai Lung which was rejected by eight publishers before Grant Richards published it in 1900. It was still in print a hundred years later. The Kai Lung stories are humorous tales set in China, often with fantasy elements such as dragons and gods." Covers rubbed, edgeworn. Clean internally.

Softcover. London, Serpent's Tail, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The debut novel by the author of CHANGO'S FIRE, the story of the "king" of Spanish Harlem and the smart, promising young man to whom he turns for a favor.

Softcover. Boston, Little Brown, ARC wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Advanced Reading Copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Softcover. NY, Henry Holt, Proof wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers. Uncorrected Proof. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The fifth book by the author of VARIOUS ANTIDOTES and EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY, the story of a mansion which belonged to the "Henry Ford of Natural History." A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Softcover. Minneapolis, Minn., Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 195 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Wraps with slight edge wear. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket with light edgewear, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 151 pages. Small name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated first American edition. "A riveting and thrilling tale of corruption, debauchery, and homicide against a backdground of sexual ambiguity." (Literary Review)

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, reprint, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A new Mrs. Appleyard story, 239 pages. No date on title page so assumed a reprint. Clean, some fading to blue boards, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's first novel, set in Berlin, in early 1933 as the Nazi regime is gaining power, and Jews, radicals, and other undesirables are leaving the city. Based on film director Fritz Lang and his wife Thea. Praise from Thomas Pychon, among others, who called it "daringly imagined and darkly romantic - a moral thriller." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, 442 pages. While a fictional story based on actual events, the author relates a wealth of information on the history, customs and political divisions in the Arab world at the time. Hinges weak but holding, bookplate on inside front cover. Light shelf wear.Originally published in England in 1850.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech. But when Sam discovers the truth about what's going on there, he realizes reuniting with his daughter is the only way to keep his sanity. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Follows the lives of Frances and Hart Drummond, married nearly forty years, and their grown children, as they cope with communication problems, love, marriage, and Connecticut real estate. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, putty color cloth with spine stamped in black and blue. 1st printing with no additional printings on copyright page. Light tanning to endpapers, mild shelf wear, clean copy. Bowles first novel.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Mystery around the Lippizzaner horses of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.Clean copy.

Hardcover. Portway, Bath UK, Cedric Chivers Ltd., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Originally published in 1936, a novel about coal mining in Lancashire, England. INSCRIBED BY HODGKISS in 1975 on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1sr, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-tone cloth, 430 pages. Epic novel set in Nantucket and New Zealand in the 1830s during the great days of sperm whaling. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Top corner of covers bumped, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 246 pages. Novel about a retired teacher in a lonely cottage by the sea in New Zealand; on the first night a storm rages and an intruder pounds on the door. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The twelfth book by this New Zealand author, but her first novel to be set in America- in New York, where Frame lived off and on for many years - the story of a young doctor who choses to study death. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 285 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Unclipped dust jacket has slight rubbing, now protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Coming of age in a country reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Karel Roeder grapples with the conflicting forces in his life--the drumbeat of the fascist authority, and his girlfriend Leda, who tempts him into a world of forbidben thought.

Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st Thus, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Limited Editions Club. SIGNED AND HAND NUMBERED BY ILLUSTRATOR HANS ALEXANDER MUELLER ON LAST PAGE - THIS BEING #1472 OF 1500. Bound in rust colored cloth. Title in silver on black leather on spine. Slipcase slightly age darkened, with pea size chip missing from top left corner. A clean, bright copy.

Softcover. London, FABER AND FABER, uncorrected proof, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Whitefriars Press, 1st fascimile, circa late 1800, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 volumes of Surtees' novels, with illustrations by John Leech in all except Hawbuck Grange, which is illustrated by H. K. Browne & W. T. Maud (aka "Phiz"). Subscription edition of original first editions published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Gilt decorated covers on red cloth board with uncut pages. Light corner and edge wear on all volumes, minor stains on some volumes. Overall, clean and tight copies. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York , Boni & Liveright, Limited, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volume set. Translated by John Payne, illustrated by Clara Tice. Edition limited to 2000 copies. This is number 85. 374 + 355 pages. Light wear and sun-fade to black cloth covers. Binding on both volumes is a little shaken but still intact. There is a small hole close to the fore-edge on rear cover of volume 2. Overall a nice set in good condition.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnams, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set in limp black leather covers with bright gilt decoration. 394, 411 pages. Hildegarde Ed. with ribbon markers.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., reprint, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages, blue cloth covers with embossed design and bright gilt decoration of handshake. Seven b&w plates and title page drawing by F.O.C. Darley. Previous owner's signature otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., reprint, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 179 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Green cloth covers with embossed design and bright gilt decoration of rifle, drum and flag. Seven b&w plates and title page drawing by F.O.C. Darley. Previous owner's signature otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Orange cloth. Minor soiling to covers, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a neat, tight copy. Author's second novel. Bodenheim was a very influential realist writer, considered the quintessential American Bohemian.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light soil. Stated second printing, same month as the first. Set in New Orleans, this is the third book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 187 pages. The author "chronicles the adventures of an innocent abroad, an American Yankee footloose in the land beyond the bamboo curtain. Mike Halsey is a thoroughly modern Friedman sort of fellow who lives well if uneasily with his lovely lady Pam, his big-guy dog Mort and his wood-burning stove.until one morning, shaken by his inability to get the papers from the Redneck Deli, he feels an old, unsettling urge coming on-the last time it happened he ended up on the coast of Finland. He reaches into his glove compartment for his ever-ready passport, and finds himself on his way to the San Francisco airport, Tokyo bound." 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.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages. Translated from Spanish by Toby Talbot. Unclipped dust jacket with small crease on front flap, rubbing. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. A small gem of a novel, THE GODS, THE LITTLE GUYS AND THE POLICE won the Premio Casa de las Americas, the most prestigious literary prize offered for Latin American fiction, when it was originally published in Mexico. In this funny yet mordant satire of political terrorism in Argentina in the mid-1970s, a paramilitary death squad places the members of a poetry circle under surveillance. They include a bank clerk, a businessman and a pretty schoolteacher, as well as a cripple, a blind man and a former police informer, people as innocuous and apolitical as their verse. But having been denounced by a jealous wife of one of their members and betrayed by the informer, they have fallen prey to the violence and repression of Buenos Aires.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 340 pages. An historical novel about King John of England, from the author of "The Lion in Winter."

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 502 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Hall's first book to be published in the United States, this is a massive novel set in a tiny community of old people in outback Australia (Whitey's Fall, pop. 49.) Miles Franklin Award Winner (Australia's highest literary honor).

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages, green cloth covers with gilt lettering a little dulled on spine. First printing with March 1922 on copyright page and no Scribner colophon. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Otherwise tight, clean.