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. Later Works includes Black Boy (American Hunger) and The Outsider. Clean copy. Mild soil to slipcase.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 213 pages. A coming of age story set in the early days of WW2. Jeffrey Stone just out of college, embarks on an bizarre adventure to discredit his father before he leaves for war.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A harrowing odyssey of love and betrayal on the high seas-and in the shadowy corners of the human heart. At fifty-nine, Harold Snow has seen his share of death. His baptism of fire came on his twenty-first birthday, on a navy ship in the Coral Sea, when a Japanese kamikaze pilot slammed into the deck. Years later, in the aftermath of a typhoon in the Bay of Bengal, he lay awake on a ship surrounded by thousands of drowned corpses and listened to the sharks feed. Now, serving as boatswain aboard the Tarshish, a decrepit tanker whose papers are as suspect as its seaworthiness, a weary Snow feels death creeping closer than ever. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Tyler's first novel. Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram. He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears his eldest sister Joanne has left her husband and returned home with her baby girl. Out of a mixture of homesickness and duty Ben Joe returns to the home in which he has always felt like an outsider. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1997-04-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and damp-staining to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED, dated on title-page by author. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages. Blue cloth lettered in silver and copper on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white drawings by the author. In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man's world. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a br5ight, unclipped dust jacket. First edition of author's first book. Pulitzer Prize finalist. Well conceived and well written, this book examines the tragedy of a man whose life epitomizes failure on every level. A victim of circumstances, Peter Jernigan is now emotionally crippled and psychologically impoverished. His already distorted personal relationships, skewed further by a dependency on alcohol, sweep him forward, with horrifying swiftness, into a nightmarish cycle of failure, loss, and spiritual death. Bright but unsuccessful, Jernigan drifts through a bleak life that only becomes worse. He has lost his father and wife in successive accidents and now must deal with the adolescent traumas of his only son. His encounter with the divorced mother of his son's girlfriend promises to lighten his life but instead complicates it even further. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ward & Drummond, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt, 418 pages, 6 b&w plates by Helen Strong. Mild rubbing, edgewear to covers. A novel extolling the temperace movement. Clean copy.
NY, Random House, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream. The unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfed A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. Novel set in a small town in Maine. Made into an HBO mini-series with Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt and Paul Newman.
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.
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, The Viking Press, 1st, 1995, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 355 pages. Unclipped dust jacket wit slight rubbing, sticker residue. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. The lives of two very different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1988, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 5th pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with Booker List sticker. Two old friends-Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984-look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. Hes also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robins emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mothers brain With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and sons ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers' most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet? Powers' thirteenth novel, his first since winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Overstory. BEWILDERMENT was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 184 pages, a novel about youth gangs in Harlem. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Spiegelman. Clean, tight copy. The quintessential hardboiled twenties poem, basis for two stage musicals and a 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch. Remainder dot to top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with dark green lettering and decoration to front cover, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 252 pages. Rear dj lists to The Last of the Great Scouts. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 314 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name and stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY FFORDE on the title page "Jasper" with his blue Goliath Publishing stamp at the bottom of the page. The third novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series is "great fun-especially for those with a literary turn of mind and a taste for offbeat comedy" (The Washington Post Book World). Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, peach-color wraps. Uncorrected bound galleys. Historical novel about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., early 1950s: a world of bare-knuckled ideology, hard drinking, and secret dossiers, dominated by such outsized characters as Richard Nixon, Drew Pearson, Perle Mesta, and Joe McCarthy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Two brothers bound by tragedy. A fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past. A country torn by revolution. A love that lasts long past death. An extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. 394 pages. The rich, poetic story of a man, a family, and a country. David Kobra's enchanted childhood in a small town in the heart of Central Europe comes to an abrupt end. As the Jews of the town are being put on trains to concentration camps, young Kobra escapes to Budapest. He survives the war years in a 'protected house,' grows up with death and violence, witnesses Soviet liberation, lives under Soviet oppression. David Kobra is a writer; he remembers, and he creates. Sharp images of the past alternate with the confused present. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and clean beauty who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian she has met by "cold bump"--making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone she targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her "contacts"--shadowy figures in business and government--instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more. *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NPR, THE ECONOMIST, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOX, and more*. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering. Bright, unclipped dust jacket (red title on spine with VERY slight fade. SIGNED BY PRICE on the front fly leaf. His first book.
Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
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. New York, Reynal & Company, Inc., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of age wear, wrapped in clear, plastic mylar. Red cloth cover boards, white title on spine. Slight tanning to edges from age. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page following the free front endpaper. (signature only). Stated 1st AMERICAN edition, no number line ( 1st printing). Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1913, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 396 pages. 'The Heart of the Hills' is the last novel completed by John Fox Jr. and the final piece in his mountain trilogy. This companion to The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is crucial to an understanding of Fox's views. He believed mountain people were exploited by outside industrialists. Frontis plate plus six more all by artist F. C. Yohn. Very bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KESSLER on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black and white with a collie and her pup on the cover. 36 pages, 4 color plates by W.T. Smedley. Story told from a dog's perspective. Light fading to spine, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Co., 2nd pr., 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in white, front cover designed in dark blue, red & white. Frontispiece and 5 inserted plates in b&w by W.J. Aylward. Top edge gilt. This is what is considered the second state, with the spine lettered in white; the first state has gilt lettering on the spine. A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea-Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar, Humphrey Van Weyden, who is rescued by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. The Sea-Wolf also introduces Jack London's most memorable, fully realized character, Wolf Larsen, the schooner's brutal captain, who ruthlessly crushes anyone standing in his way. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Small, short tear to spinr cloth.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, soiled with fading to spine and gilt on cover. 327 pages. Despite grubby exterior, interior is clean, tight binding. Stated First Edition. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A compelling portrait of the disintegration of the members of the Caldwell family, who have retreated to a horse farm from the city rat-race and their painful struggle to confront the problematic relationships they share. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 190 pages. A mystery novel about the adventurous librarian lifestyle. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf.
Softcover. Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A draft of Beattie's 1995 novel bound in black plastic spiral binding. No date, no markings. 500 pages, doubled-spaced.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY RUSSO on the title page. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool. Russo, who won the Pulitzer Prize for literature for "Empire Falls", has added this third novel to his stories about life in Bath, New York. It's been about 30 years first novel, "Nobodys fool" that turned into a movie starring Paul Newman and Jessica Tandy (in her final performance) and so a number of the characters are now dead, but their presence echoes through the minds of their children and friends who are now the central characters in "Everybody's Fool." Russo masterfully tells a story about a single weekend in a town that has been consumed by its bigger and more robust town to the north effectively erasing it from maps. His characters are fully developed and by the time we finish the book we know them all well. And we like most of them and even relate to some of them. Clean, bright copy.
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, Doubleday, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. A brilliant, action-packed re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. Copyright pages states First Edition with the number 10 above it, so a later printing. Clean copy.
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