Novels

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, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $2.50 on flap, 304 pages. Stated First Edition with M-I code on copyright page. Title-page printed in red and black. Original gray cloth lettered in black, backstrip decorated in red and lettered in black. "George Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois and into the soul of America itself."

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, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A PEN/Faulkner Award nominated novel. The story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica - the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half African father, abandoned as an infant. INSCRIBED BY KINCAID on the half-title page. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Penguin Classic, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 412 pages. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a devastating satire of Soviet life, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with incident and with historical, imaginary, frightful and wonderful characters. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Celadon Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night as some locals gather at Bo Peep's, one of the town's favorite watering holes. Within an hour, however, a man will be murdered and his companion will be "disappeared." An unlikely detective, Morgana Musgrove, doyenne of Savannah society, is called upon to unravel the mystery of these crimes. Morgana is an imperious, demanding, and conniving woman, whose four grown children are weary of her schemes. But one by one she inveigles them into helping with her investigation, and soon the family uncovers some terrifying truths-truths that will rock Savannah's power structure to its core. Moving from the homeless encampments that ring the city to the stately homes of Savannah's elite, Green's novel brilliantly depicts the underbelly of a city with a dark history and the strangely mesmerizing dysfunction of a complex family. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 321 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FORD on the title page. This copy of Pulitzer Prize winner Ford's novel presents the story of 15 year old Dell Parsons and his sister Berner, who must fend for themselves when their parents are arrested, convicted and imprisoned for a Montana bank robbery. Dell's sister runs while Dell is spirited into Canada to live with an American who has his own issues. Clean 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. Toronto, Ontario, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket ($22.95 flap price). True first edition, Canadian. A dystopian novel set in a future totalitarian America run by religious fundamentalists, where fertile women are enslaved as breeders to the country's leaders, brought her international acclaim and financial success, winning the Governor General's Award, the Los Angeles Times Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Commonwealth Literary Prize, and being shortlisted for the Booker Prize (UK) and the Ritz-Paris-Hemingway Prize (Paris). The work was made into a film in 1990, an acclaimed opera by the Royal Danish Opera Society in 2000, and recently was adapted for television. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that's price-clipped.

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, Westvaco Corp., reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Limited edition. 286 pages. Orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped baseball design to the upper board. Decorated endpapers. With head and tail bands and a ribbon place marker. A fine copy in decorated stiff card slipcase. A limited edition of Lardner's first book, produced in an unspecified quantity as a Christmas gift for customers of the Westvaco Corporation. Illustrated with color reproductions of vintage baseball cards. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still lives alone in his rented apartment with nothing but condiments and alcohol in his refrigerator. He spends Saturday mornings watching cartoons and eating Cocoa Puffs out of an Empire Strikes Back bowl, and devotes the rest of the weekend to his other favorite hobbies: sports and girls. His credo, to think and act like a thirteen-year-old boy at all times, has worked well enough to land him a decent job writing headlines for the New York Tabloid. But neither his personal life nor his professional life has any forward momentum; he's occupied the same cubicle since the first George Bush was president and is currently "between girlfriends." At thirty-two, it starts to occur to him: There's a fine line between picky and loser. Clean copy.

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, 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, Doubleday, Doran and Co,, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. Boris Artzybasheff dust jacket art with wraparound illustration. Historical novel of missionaries in 19th century Hawaii.Author's first novel. "Beneath the white sunlight of Hawaii brown kings and queens, traders, ship captains, missionaries shape the destiny of one woman - and of an island empire." 1935 on title page but no first edition on copyright page. 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, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unusual work in that Gallico wrote this not as a sequel to his book THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE but rather as a sequel to the film version. The film featured some plot and character changes which Gallico incorporates into this novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with pictorial design of girl on a horse stamped in white and black. 153 pages illustrated with 5 b&w plates by Lucius Hitchcock. Twain's historical fiction novel, partially written from the point of view of Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, Soldier Boy. This novel was first published in two installments in August and September 1906 in 'Harper's Magazine'. Twain's daughter Susy Clemens, who died in 1896 at age 24 of spinal meningitis, is understood to be the inspiration for lead character Cathy Alison. When Twain provided the story to Harper's, he included a photograph of Susy for the illustrator to use for Cathy. Spine is lightly faded, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Provides fresh insight into the age old tale of a woman who grows as an individual and literally explodes out of her marriage. May Sarton describes the burgeoning artist confined by a social contract. Light fading to spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a very worn and chipped dust jacket, 294 pages. In these four short novels set in America, England and Paris, Rebecca West explores the lives and relationships of rich women and men who are ruled by 'the harsh voice we hear when money talks, or hate'. There is Josie, a flower of American girlhood with boundless ambition for wealth. There is Etienne de Sefavenac, a dilettante French aristocrat whose courtly stratagems are intended to ensnare Nancy Sarle - a plain American businesswoman. There is Alice Pemberton, a sensible Englishwoman - the very salt of the earth - in her own estimation. And lastly there is Sam Hartley, an American businessman who has fought his way to riches with his wife at his side, but whose life is now haunted by visions of beautiful young women.

Hardcover. Northridge CA, Lord John Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 162 pages,Very clean and tight copy. This book is actually 3 stories linked together by a common theme compiled into a novel that beautifully illustrates how our decisions might really be what determines our destiny. Color frontis by Rick Araluce.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran & Company, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green and white, 469 pages. Irish descendants of a horse thief sacrifice love and freedom for position and security in Victorian period. Woodcuts by Freda Bone. When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the Considines a leading Mellick family. In turn, his son Anthony builds a fine house in the country for his wife and children--most especially for his adored son Dennis. Little does he know that when Dennis grows up he will threaten the toil of generations with his love for a peasant girl. A stirring family saga of divided loyalties and individual freedom; of matches made and lost; and of the constraints of religion and family pride. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's debut novel. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Charter Books, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages. With a new introduction by the author. Presents the story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. Written in Henry's own words, this funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. First published in 1953. Price blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Modern Library, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Three novels in one volume: Young Lonigan (201 pages); The Young Manhood Of Studs Lonigan (412 pages); Judgment Day (465 pages). Farrell wrote these three novels at a time of national despair. During the Great Depression, many of America's most gifted writers and artists aspired to create a single, powerful work of art that would fully expose the evils of capitalism and lead to a political and economic overhaul of the American system. Farrell chose to use his own personal knowledge of Irish-American life on the South Side of Chicago to create a portrait of an average American slowly destroyed by the "spiritual poverty" of his environment. Both Chicago and the Irish-American Roman Catholic Church of that era are described at length, and faulted. Clean copy.

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. 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. 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. 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.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 225 pages. SIGNED BY MITCHELL on the title page. Three Vermont women enroll in a nature writing class, only to find themselves drawn into a plot to commit an act of destruction in the name of the environment. Clean copy.

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, 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. 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. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The Fleuri ranch on Colorado's Croom Mountain resembles a scene from the 1880s, save for a few modern conveniences such as a tractor, a refrigerator, and a water pump. Life for the Fleuris, who supplement their meager income with moonshine and illegal game, hasn't changed much either. When a government agent persuades them to turn the ranch into a model 1880s homestead for paying visitors, it seems a perfect solution to their plight, until the deed is done. Greenberg deals realistically with the impact of government regulation, social and cultural change, and affluence on a backwoods family, while treating family members with the tenderness, humor, and dignity that each so richly deserves. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2nd Printing, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Hardcover. Stated on copyright page: "New Edition, March 1966". Minor foxing to top edge. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear along edges. Small pea sized stains at very bottom of pages 152 through 159. Clean, unmarked text.

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. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi-cial blood he pours on his "prayer log." There's Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial kill-ers, who troll America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There's the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a taut narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. Attractive copy of the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park. Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whose humor and identification with the absurd are mitigated only by his love for his family, friends, and, ultimately, knowledge itself. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in white, 84 pages. Decorative woodcut on endpapers. Internally bright and clean. Illustrated throughout with beautiful woodcut engravings by John Farleigh. Designed by Farleigh. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st thus, ND (1924), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, blue cloth binding with black lettering. Black and white plate frontispiece, black and white plates throughout featuring scenes from the 1924 film starring Milton Sills, rear panel of dust jacket shows scenes from the photoplay of Scaramouche, starring Alice Terry and Roman Novarro. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America,, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light sticker residue to rear panel, 1096 pages. The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector's volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrations in 2-colors by Frederick T. Chapman. This stirring tale of Iceland fishermen; of their expeditions to the cold and dangerous regions where the summers no longer have nights, and of their return to their firesides in Paimpol--is one of the great masterpieces of French literature. It is a gripping tale of adventure and romance, a colorful and exciting story of fearless men, and of their patient, courageous wives.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 161 pages. The author's first book to be translated into English. Translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook. Pamuk would go on to win the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 300 pages. Set against the backdrop of Italy between 1939 to 1944 - the months of anxiety before the country entered the war through to the tension following the Allied victory - "All Our Yesterdays" follows the lives of two families during the period of great turbulence and tells how the children grow into war and its aftermath. The boys flirt with revolution; Amalia marries a young German Jew; Concettina marries into a family that supports Mussolini; and Anna the youngest child, becomes pregnant when she is sixteen and is married off to Cenzo Rena, an eccentric family friend. War scatters them, but even war cannot break their bonds. All Our Yesterdays is about the endurance and resilience of people living through adolescence and early adulthood in a hostile world. Ex-lib with minor residue to rear endpaper and dust jacket taped to covers.

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, 349 pages. Rear dj lists to The Young Pitcher. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FFORDE on the title page, signed "Jasper". It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favorite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Franny Fuller, a frightened girl from upstate New York, becomes the nation's number-one sex symbol, hiding her personal misery and fragile personality behind a mask of glamour and ambition. Novel set in Hollywood around the late 1930s. Unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.