Novels

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, 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.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1st US, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages plus publisher's ads, light blue cloth with 3-color decoration, 32 b&w plates by Sidney Paget. Light flecking to cloth in small areas, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket shows light wear - now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 445 pages, b&w illustrations by Rini Templeton. Dust jacket with light sun fading and chipping, small tear to upper edge of front cover, slight stain on spine, else a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Red Ozier Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Singer's signature to last story page in pen. Interior color lithographic frontispiece signed in pencil by Callner. Illustrated with three colored lithographs, each signed by Richard Callner in pencil. Violet morocco leather spine, sides, and corner-tips. Blue boards. Translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Pollet. Light age toning to top text block edge. Heavy fading to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. Of 155 copies, this is number 76. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Copyright page states: "First Printing c". Dust jacket with 3" closed vertical tear at bottom left corner of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, Uncorrected proof, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages, b&w drawings by Karen Usborne, INSCRIBED BY WILSON to Irving and Joyce (Adler) on the title page and dated August 1970. Wilson has also added 3 titles to the list of his previously published books on the opposite page. Joyce Adler wrote several books on Caribbean literature and Harris. She has marked up this book in pencil and pen with underlining and marginal notes. This edition published before the hardcover printing. Peach color wrappers faded..

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 411 pages, illustrated with 192 line drawings. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover design is bright, spine a little less so, with a touch of cardboard showing through cloth at bottom edge and corner. Front hinge partially cracked. Back cover with several small white spots. "Ladies Library Association #246" in ink on front fly leaf, contents page a little frayed on fore-edge. Interior pages clean, very good. This is the First Edition, second state. Copyright page states Franklin Press, corrected text on pages 124, 263 and 362.

Hardcover. London, T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 4th Ed., 1778, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, calf binding with covers detached, 262 pages, engraved frontispiece (depicting Millenium Hall). A 1762 novel by Sarah Scott. It was Scott?'s most significant novel, popular enough to go into four editions very early into its publication. Interest has revived in the 21st century among feminist literary scholars. Elizabeth Montague, Sarah Scott?s sisters, had become a leader of the bluestockings, a coterie of reform-minded individuals. Hall is a fictional embodiment of bluestockings ideals. The book was a best seller when it first appeared in 1762, running through four editions by 1778. Frontispiece detached but all text pages still firmly bound and clean. A candidate for rebinding.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rich maroon leather boards with decorations in gold on front and rear boards. Title in gold on spine between raised leather bands. All edges are gilt. Text is clean and crisp. Satin ribbon marker. SIGNED BY PLIMPTON on a blank prelim page. In April 1985, Sports Illustrated published an article that stunned the sports community. George Plimpton's 13-page profile of Sidd Finch, a mysterious pitcher who had been signed by the New York Mets and reportedly threw 168 mph, came complete with photos from spring training, scouting reports, and interviews with Mets players and management. A week later, SI apologized to readers around the world for their role in what is generally regarded as the greatest hoax in the history of sports journalism. The magazine had teamed up with the legendary author and Paris Review bon vivant for an April Fool's Day prank of unprecedented proportions. After the success of the article, Plimpton decided to turn the story into a novel -- a rousing baseball fairy tale that is considered one of the most memorable sports novels of the last half-century.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full bright red leather with vibrant gilt lettering and embellishments. All edges gilt, raised bands on spine, silk bookmark, marbled endpapers. SIGNED BY ROTH on a blank prelim page. Nathan Zuckerman's account of his younger brother Henry and the story about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Alpharetta GA, Black & White Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, also INSCRIBED by him on dedication page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 409 pages, author's first novel. Black cloth with light soil, dust jacket is bright, unclipped, but has a light pink line about 5 inches in length along right of cover. SIGNED BY LLOSA WITH HIS INITIALS AND UNDERLINED ON TITLE PAGE. Author signed at a reading at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1st , 1880, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Terra cotta cloth with beveled edges, gilt lettering on spine, Houghton Osgood imprint. Spine is slightly cocked. Nice, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, Ltd. ed., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 354 pages. Padded blue silk covers with gilt lettering and design. Illustrated in color by Reginald Marsh. Edges speckled blue and yellow. Limited edition copy #880/1500 and SIGNED BY MARSH. Very good condition. No slipcase.

Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY BRINK at 1998 Breadloaf Writer's Conference. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 324 pages. Stated: "First Edition - Published April 1937" - 2nd impression. Blue cloth cover. Fade to spine. Top edge stained red. Previous owners name on front endpaper. '0185' stamped at bottom of first page of Contents. Streaks of discoloration on some groups of pages.

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Mild edgewear to dust jacket corners, light chipping. Red endpapers and topstain as per first issue. Unmarked. Light foxing to rear flap dust jacket top edge. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and rule on front. B&w frontis. illustration. A story of personality exchange set during World War I. The same German bullet passes through the brain of one French soldier, killing him, but lodges in the head of another (his close friend), causing only a slight injury but transferring the dead man's personality to that second soldier. This produces great psychological consternation in the wounded man, especially when he returns home and courts the widow of the first soldier. Bookplate on front fly, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 396 pages. This book won the 1986 Prix Medicis Etranger prize. The book is a full-blooded comic epic about the relationship between a daughter and her larger-than-life father in the wilds of Alaska. Light remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover with an orange slipcase with a tipped-in plate to the front panel. . No dust jacket. Limited to 350 copies. SIGNED AND NUMBERED 23/350.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUSTER. Tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, proof, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Uncorrected proof, green wraps. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Title page excised or missing (no sign of tear or extraction). Otherwise like new. Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with whom Thomas lives, who provide a balance of the not-quite-Dostoevskian devils that visit the villagers. In the end, Thomas is severed from his childhood and the Issa River, and leaves prepared for adventures beyond his valley. Poetic and richly imagined, The Issa Valley is a masterful work of fiction from one of our greatest living poets. Clean.