Novels

Hardcover. London, Martin Lawrence, 1st UK, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with black lettering on spine, 300 pages. Translated by Z. Mitrov & J. Tabrisky. No date, no edition stated.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth with black lettering, in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, 297 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Embossed stamp to half title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 377 pages. Dust jacket art and four b&w illustrations by W. H. D. Koerner. Bottom quarter of spine gone, short blue mark to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Cornerstone Books, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards. 152 pages. This is the large-print edition of a book first published in 1975. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, Anansi, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages. Slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease, Donald, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, begins dictating family stories he has never shared with anyone, hoping to preserve history for his children. The dignity of Donald's death and his legacy encourages his loved ones to find a way to redeem and let go of the past, whether through his daughter's immersion in Chippewa religious ideas or his mourning wife's attempt to escape the malevolent influence of her own father. A deeply moving book about origins and endings, and how to live with honor for the dead, Returning to Earth is one of the finest novels of Harrison's long, storied career, and will confirm his standing as one of the most important American writers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Unable to cope with his huge inheritance, Jonathan Whalen searches for an escape in the drug culture. Stated First Edition with B in letter line. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, John Lane Company, 3rd Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. 180 pages, color frontis. In this historical romance, Katrina Trask brings to life the story of King Alfred's Jewel, a precious gem from the time of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs. The novel follows the jewel's journey through the centuries, and the lives of the people who owned and cherished it, from medieval times to the present day. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library Of America, 1st thus, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 832 pages. From the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred, the Parable novels, and Bloodchild, here in its spellbinding entirety is Octavia E. Butlers epic of human survival and transformation. Conceived against a backdrop of Reagan-era nuclear brinksmanship, Liliths Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogya classic of Afrofuturist speculative fiction offers profound reflections on race, biology, colonialism, resistance, consent, sexuality, community, hybridity, technology, power, and the future of humankind.

Hardcover. NY, Reagan Arthur Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. His second novel, after THEN WE CAME TO THE END, which won the PEN/Hemingway prize for best first book of fiction. The New Yorker chose Ferris as one of the twenty best authors under the age of 40 in 2010. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Overall, clean tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, bright, clean copy in a similar, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRICE on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket,166 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Hardcover. Previous name on inside front cover, light pencil marking on endpapers. Moderate foxing on preliminary pages. Light wear to maroon cloth covers. No dust jacket. Clean, unmarked text.

Softcover. NY, Bloomsbury, Uncorr. proof , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Paperback proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with only light edge wear to covers. Autographed copy sticker on front dj. Marcus Clay and Dimitri Karras return from the acclaimed thriller, King Suckerman, as they square off against drug lords and racists on the crime-ridden streets of the nation's capital in the midst of the 1980s.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Two of Ozick's most widely admired pieces, "The Shawl" (a story) and "Rosa" (a novella) were published together in this book for the first time. Very powerful writing from the author of Trust and Levitation.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 479 pages. Predestined, Whitman's first and most successful novel, is a remarkably con-trolled, inexorably plotted story of Felix Piers, born to wealth and misfortune, who was predestined to a life of failure. The rich, varied background of New York City's many sides provides the compelling backdrop to this deterministic novel. First published in 1910, one of the titles in the Lost American Fiction Series. The author is an over-looked American literary naturalist whose Predestined compares favorably with the work of Frank Norris. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DELBANCO on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions CLub, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in forest-green cloth, spine stamped in gilt with printed label attached. Introduction by Norman H. Strouse with color and b&w illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Copy #794 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Wells felt that this was his best novel. Very good in a bright yellow slipcase with some darkening to one area.

Softcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st pbk., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 396 pages. Debut novel. This is the story of S.T. George, a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University, who is looking for love and dragons to slay. Momentous forces and a cast of extraordinary characters gather around him and soon George is caught up in an epic struggle. Magical storytelling certain to be reread, laughed over and remembered for a very long time. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 970 pages. Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that brings together her fiction and nonfiction for the first time. Collected in this first volume are Didion's five iconic books from the 1960s and 1970s: Run River, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, and The White Album. Whether writing about countercultural San Francisco, the Las Vegas wedding industry, Lucille Miller, Charles Manson, or the shopping mall, Didion achieves a wonderful negative sublimity without condemning her subjects or condescending to her readers. Chiefly about California, these books display Didion's genius for finding exactly the right language and tone to capture America's broken twilight landscape at a moment of headlong conflict and change. Remainder dot to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, quarter green cloth cover with patterned boards, 368 pages. A novel from Norway. Translated from the Norwegian by Edwin Bjorkman. Front dust jacket flap glued to inside front cover.Clean bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Moni falls in love with her brother's English classmate, and leaves Calcutta to start a new life with him in London, where she faces prejudice, sexism, and betrayal. Of the fragile love between the assured Englishman, Anthony, and the bright but sheltered young Bengali woman, Gupta weaves a provocative and utterly empathetic tale of awakening and hard discovery, steeped in cultural protocol and taboo, in Jane Austen and the verse of Tagore. Author's first novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Rear cover with light discoloration. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 387 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIM-PAGE. Minor rubbing to pictorial dust jacket, else a lovely copy in clear mylar cover. A mystery set in Paris in WWII.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Nice copy of this fairly scarce novel, by the writer Nemerov, far more well known for his poetry. This, this third novel, was the basis for the hit Broadway play, "Tall Story", and for the movie of the same name. The movie had Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda as co-stars. Dust jacket faded, chipped at top, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles and front decoration, 321 pages. Illustrations by Gordon Grant. Book number three in the Penrod trilogy. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist known for his portrayals of Midwestern life and humorous portrayals of boyhood and adolescence. Many of his novels have become young-people's classics. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 391 pages, dust jacket price-clipped, light edgewear. Light residue on rear endpapers. A Word Child charts the trials and tribulations of the title character, the "word child", Hilary Burde as he attempts to recover from his troubled past.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 279 pages. James Facos evokes the tension, the triumph and the tragedy of an American bomber crew in England during the height of the war over Germany in 1944. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 310 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Maroon cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. Arnold Rampersad wrote the notes for this volume. Includes: Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom's Children, and Native Son. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Thorp Springs Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light rubbing, A novel about Texas prisons written by a Texas poet and publisher. INSCRIBED BY FOREMAN on the blank prelim page. Uncommon with a small printing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 446 pages. "Gemma Hardy" is set in Scotland and Iceland in the 1950's and 1960's. Some of the familiar plot aspects of "Jane Eyre" are present -- Gemma has been taken in by a kindly uncle when her parents (living in Iceland, although her mother is Scottish) die in an accident; her uncle dies and her aunt and cousins make her life a misery; she is sent away to a school similar in many aspects to the Lowood of "Jane Eyre"; she becomes a governess to a young girl and falls in love with the child's guardian, and then flees him when his deep, dark secret hits the light of day. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. Clean copy.

Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, Ardis, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. Translated by A.R. Tulloch. The novel 'The Naked Year' (1921) brought Pilnyak immediate fame. It contains a graphic description of the worst year of the Russian Civil War. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, hardcover. Color illustrations by John Cecil Clay. Margaret Armstrong cover desIgn. Spine has half-inch tear near author's name. Bumping to corners. Unmarked. A tight copy.

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. NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild soiling. A ink line has been drawn through the flap price ($4.50), otherwise clean. Sontag's first book, a novel of ideas written at a time when Freud's theory of Dream Interpretation was considered the greatest of all. The protagonist Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his real world experiences. First Printing stated.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 241 pages, first printing with the A on copyright page. Book is clean, no markings. The olive green cloth covers have some discoloration along top edge (very light), probably caused by light water damage or dampness. The result is also some tan spotting along the top INSIDE of the dust jacket, and a tiny area of tanning at top corner of front fly leaf. The outside of the front panel of the dust jacket is unaffected, but the rear panel has two dark spots at top. The spine has some fading, flap not price-clipped. The edge of the text block has some spotting, light foxing. Overall, a very attractive copy, now protected in a clear plastic cover.

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, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st, 1908 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with top-edge gilt. Gilt and 2-color cover decoration by Armstrong, color illustrations by H. Fenn. Condition is somewhat fragile, but clean and nice with some minor wear to the cover.

Hardcover. NY, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. "Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, 'American Rust' is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty around them who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and the polluted river. Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mother commits suicide and his sister Lee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mother's trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaac's leaving, something happens that changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, 'American Rust' is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us."

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Haunted by the memory of the hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager, Lowell has been receiving calls from a stranger obsessed with learning the whole truth about Air France 64 badgering him for information about the flight she was also on as a child. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 3rd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bight dust jacket. In this comic, fiercely compassionate novel, David Gates, whose first novel Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, sends his protagonist on a visceral journey to the dark side of suburban masculinity, explores the claims youth makes on middle age, and the tenacious --at times perverse--power of love to assert itself.When Doug Willis has a mid-life crisis, he doesn't join a gym or have an affair. Instead he gets himself arrested while camping with his wife and kids, takes a two month leave of absence from his PR job, and retreats to his farmhouse in rural Preston Falls--where he plugs in his guitar and tries to shut out his life. While his wife, Jean, struggles to pay the bills and raise their sullen, skeptical kids, Willis's plans for hiatus crumble into Dewars-and-cocaine fueled disarray. A shattered window, an unguarded gun, and a shady small town attorney force a crisis--and Willis can't go home again. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This signed first edition of author and journalist Sid Smith's novel 'Something Like A House' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, following a British soldier who deserts to China during the Korean War and stays there some 35 years, bringing up a little girl who later becomes a victim of experimental biological warfare. Despite being set in China, Smith had never traveled there before writing the novel, the background gleaned from extensive research at the British Library amongst other places. An exciting novel set in a China almost unknown to the outside world, a chilling account of an army deserter living through a Cultural Revolution. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Enright is author of seven novels, most recently Actress. She has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Lifetime A.hievement Award . An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather's poetry seems to guide her home. The Wren, the Wren brings to life three generations of McDaragh women who must contend with inheritances-of poetic wonder and of abandonment by a man who is lauded in public and carelessly selfish at home. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. Collection of stories about a platoon of soldiers in the Vietnam War. First trade edition with 1 in number row. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First novel by the author of I Cover the Waterfront. Harried businessman takes a year off to loaf on a houseboat. Clean, tight copy.