Novels

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 369 pages, cover design by Decorative Designers, 12 b&w illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a very worn dust jacket with tape repairs. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Vidal's second novel, a work with some gay aspects but one in which the author felt he played things a bit too safely. "Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city." Book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. London, Stanley Paul, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Society novel, 159 pages.Translated from the Polish by S.C. de Soissons. De Soissons also provides a eulogistic 5 page introduction.

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 270 pages, very good in a rubbed dust jacket with light edgewear. Mailer's fourth novel and seventh book describes thirty-two hours in the life of college professor and war hero Stephen Rojack during a 1960s existential journey on Manhattan's East Side.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, 300 pages plus publisher's ads. 4 b&w plates by George Avison. First published as Le Roi des Montagnes (1856) About's popular novel satirizes the famous Klephts of 19thC. Greece. His portrait of Hadj-Stavros owes something to the real life brigand of the mountains Christodoulos Hadji-Petros (whose charm was sufficient to attact Lady Jane Digby during her adventurous stay in Greece) Translated by Florence Crewe-Jones. Bookplate on inside front cover, spine gilt with light fading.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams. The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula. Clean, fresh copy.

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, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Uncommon post-apocalyptic novel set in the near future and "focussing on a few people brought into unnatural intimacy after an atomic bomb has been dropped on New York. Each of the characters is intended to be symbolic of forces let loose in the world by atomic fission. Chunks gone from edges of dj, spine faded. Interior of book is clean.

Hardcover. NY, William Faro, Inc., 1st thus, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. black cloth with title on spine label, 313 pages. A good+ copy of the first edition [1930 on the title page] of the William Faro pirated hard cover edition, lacking the dust-jacket. "Revised, 1930, by William Faro, Inc." on copyright page. No markings, edgewear to cloth covers, corners. mild wear to top of spine. Binding solid.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue tweed cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 246 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. 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, 338 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Clean copy.

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. Idle Ridge Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 361 pages. Never a Cloud is a big old-fashioned, contemporary, social novel narrated by Violet Grey, an eccentric, out-of-the-ordinary loner, living on the coast of Maine. The deeply emotional love story of a complicated family in an enchanted place. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 406 pages. The second entry in Updike's brilliant and acclaimed Rabbit series which all featured Harry Angstrom. Nominated for a National Book Award. A clean and tight near fine copy in red cloth boards with a bright blue topstain. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 335 pages. A novel set in the high-gloss world of contemporary Mexico's societal and intellectual elite. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 645 pages, fold-out map in rear, translated by Michael Glenny. The work tells about the beginning of the First World War and the unsuccessful offensive of the Russian army in East Prussia. The author uses the methods of documentary narration within the framework of a work of fiction and describes not only the military campaign, but also the experience of people caught in the middle of events. Red top edge. Edge wear, small pieces missing from dust jacket; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 342 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new.

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. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages. With Illustrations by William Rainey, R. I. Minor spine edge and corner wear. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Decorated front cover. Clean pages and tight binding.

Hardcover. London, Martin Secker, 1st UK, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, plus 8 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Covers with 2 small bumps to brown cloth, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. El Paso, TX, Sweet Earth Flying Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Penned by two of the most famous African American writers of the 1930s, this never-before-published coming-of-age story chronicles the adventures of a 12-year-old Mexican boy, Miguel Del Monte, who joins his uncle in herding wild broncos from northern Mexico to Los Angeles. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this historic tale follows Miguel as he embarks on this unexpected trip across the American Southwest desert, determined to prove himself brave and smart enough to deal with the anticipated hardships. Along with a close encounter with roving bandits and the dangerous forces of nature, Miguel has bittersweet interactions with people of diverse racial and cultural groups, learning important lessons along the way. Separated into concise episodes and reflecting the beauty of various peoples, this collection depicts the power of tolerance and multicultural inclusion.

Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright yellow dust jacket with light edgewear. Nine fictional characters argue/debate philosophical questions and offer opinions on history and literature. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 359 pages. The author's third book, an historical novel of slavery set in the years just before the Civil War and inspired by the life of Harriet Tubman In 2013, McBride won the National Book Award. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. The story takes place in a small Czech town when a girl was arrested for stealing flowers from a cemetery to give to her lover as a gift. Book has seven parts: Ludvik, Helena, Ludvik, Jaroslav, Ludvik, Kostka and Ludvik, Jaroslav, Helena. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Publishing, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Javier Perez is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns from an early age how to play the game to his own advantage, how his background--murdered drug dealer dad, single cash-strapped mom, best friend serving time for gang activity--can be a key to doors he didn't even know existed. This kind of story, molded in the right way, is just what college admissions committees are looking for, and a full academic scholarship to a prestigious university brings Javi one step closer to his dream of becoming a famous writer. As a college student, Javi embellishes his life story until there's not even a kernel of truth left. The only real connection to his past is the occasional letter he trades with his childhood best friend, Gio, who doesn't seem to care about Javi's newfound awareness of white privilege or the school-to-prison pipeline. Soon after Javi graduates, a viral essay transforms him from a writer on the rise to a journalist at a legendary magazine where the editors applaud his "unique perspective." But Gio more than anyone knows who Javi really is, and sees through his game. Once Gio's released from prison and Javi offers to cut him in on the deal, will he play along with Javi's charade, or will it all come crumbling down? Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Summit Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise clean. Marge Piercy, whose earlier novels have chronicled the female experience in the turbulent '60s and 70s, now turns her considerable skill and passion to the 1950s in this portrait of women in transition from repression to freedom. Through the intense friendship between Jill and her cousin, Donna, we see and feel what it was like to grow up in Detroit in the '50s and go to college when the first seeds of freedom were sown. Through Jill's childhood friend Howie, and her relationships with Mike and Peter, we come to understand the danger that sex posed when abortions were illegal, making the outcome of a chance encounter of a night of love a matter of life and death. And, through Marge Piercy's brilliant, thought-provoking novel, our lives are illuminated.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, Berger's 15th novel, a comic masterpiece. First printing, with "1" present on number line. Light green boards with dark green cloth spine. An eerie and clever novel, The Houseguest introduces one of Berger's most dangerous and compelling villains. Clean copy.

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, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Like new in unclipped dust jacket. A foray into the "war summer" of 1968 that illuminates the complexities, sensibilities, and passions of the time.

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, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a black-lettered leaf-green cloth spine over grass-green boards; in a illustrated dust jacket with striking artwork by Leo and Diane Dillon. Historical novel of the XVIII dynasty pharaoh, Akhenaten, told from the perspective of his strong, proud mother, Empress Tiye, who effectively ruled Egypt for years. Gedge's earlier Egyptian novel, CHILD OF THE MORNING was hailed by critics.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous New England writers suddenly go up in smoke, he must prove his innocence by uncovering the identity of this literary-minded arsonist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with light fading to the spine, 367 pages. Translated from the Russian by H.C. Stevens. Continuation the story begun in Virgin Soil Upturned (1935) of a collective farm organized under the supervision of the Communist Party in a small Don village. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light blue cloth with dark blue lettering, in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, 323 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with brown lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 301 pages. Rear dj lists Triangle Books. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a 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. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd Ed., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover on a worn and tape-repaired dust jacket. A nice copy of the 2nd edited version of Billy Budd, a Melville tale unfinished at the time of his death and left in a rough, unassembled condition. Its first publication was considered rushed and this 2nd version was much more painstakingly edited, and bears much editorial discussion and includes the first publication of the short story on which the novel was based. Book is very good, clean. The dj not so much.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1909, Hardcover, Edwardian era novel, illustrated throughout with 34 black and white plates by Rose O'Neill. Orange cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and dark green with an inset blind-stamped design of pumpkins and vines on the front cover, 307 pages, no dust jacket. Small number stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran & Co., 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 372 pages. Spine cloth faded otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. "It is ample token of Maxine Kumin's talents as poet and novelist that this compelling novel never departs from the substance of real life. She invests with new insight the homely details of a New England suburb and the crises that punctuate life with familiarity and the saving grace of humor. The broad canvas of The Passions of Uxport offers the reader richness of character, scene and perception, and the wry wisdom of a woman of experience." Tape repaired dj, book is clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light green pictorial cloth, 241 pages. An historical adventure set in Ireland. A novel on Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the last significant claimant of the Stuart dynasty to the British throne and leader of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745-46. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Uncommon title.

Hardcover. Barre MA, The Imprint Society, Ltd. Ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue and beige cloth covered boards with gilt vignette of telescope on cover and gilt titled spine. 80 pages, wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Limited edition, one of 1,950, this unnumbered and unsigned. A science fiction tale set in Boston, a tasty satire. Book is bright, clean, housed in a lightly worn slipcase.

Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st pbk., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the 'geoglyphic' African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll. INSCRIBED BY ABISH on the front fly leaf which also has previous owner's name in corner.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages, bright, clean copy of author's third book.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 403 pages, translated from the French by Sandra Smith. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

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.