Novels

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BARNES on blank prelim page. Autograph sticker on front of jacket, Small paper scar to rear panel.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 264 pages, yellow and black boards with black cloth spine, spine label. INSCRIBED ON FRONT FLY LEAF by author but not signed: "To my Ol' Man William (otherwise Little Father) from one of "his chillun" (otherwise me) with love and gratitude for a brief but happy visit. July 20/29/ Claman Towers, South Duxbury Mass" Book slightly cocked, front hinge fragile, light wear.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front preliminary page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Short early novel by this author, first published in The New Yorker.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Early Book Club Edition. 293 pages. Light wear to mylar protected dust jacket with slight sun-fade to spine. Tiny chip missing from lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages, 4 b&w illustrations by C.S. Reinhart, each with a tissue guard. Green cloth with with black design, gilt lettering on spine, edges stained red. This copy INSCRIBED BY HARTE on a blank prelim page and dated the year of publication. Hinges partially cracked, front fly leaf opened roughly (possibly for inscription on following page), binding a little shaken.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Light blue cloth boards with red lettering on spine. The author's notorious first novel. "An absorbing, passionate novel exploring totally new territory: the story of a highly sexual intellectual woman, a writer, and the craziness and the misery of the war between the mind and the body". Mild soil to rear of dj otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, unmarked, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages, cream colored boards with beige cloth spine. First printing with number row starting with 1. Pulitzer Prize Winner. SIGNED BY ROBINSON on title page. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 222 pages. Black cloth. Ex-library with stamp on front endpaper. Tape on inside flap of dust jacket and inside cover of book - front and rear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Softcover. San Francisco, Albion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The fictional story of one man's obsession with the Grateful Dead, and the revelations he experiences while following the band from show to show at the turn of the millennium. INSCRIBED BY BARUTH on half title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that has a paper scar to spine where label was removed. Illustrated on dj and cover of a man standing at a bar. B&w illustrations by Jack Gallagher. A satiric view of tipplers, depicted in the character of a Falstaffian American male apparently meant to counteract the caticature of prohibition and prohibitionists as a pinch-faced old spoil sport put forth by the cartoonist Rollin Kirby in the "New York World."

Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 362 pages, SIGNED BY AW on title page. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman -- a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer -- whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine and double blind stamped ruling around border of front and back.

Hardcover. Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. GERMAN TEXT. Long previous owner's inscription on half title page. Red boards, cream colored cloth-label on spine. Beautiful dust jacket with only one tiny spot on lower edge of front cover, protected in clear mylar sleeve. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket - jacket protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows light wear but otherwise and internally a good clean copy. hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, John Long, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,320 pages, blue cloth cobers with black and red design, gilt title on spine. Minor edge wear and rubbing, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. A scarce copy with very clean pages and tight binding.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 2nd pr., 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 624 pages, brown cloth with embossed black and gilt decoration on the front cover and spine. 300 b&w drawings. Second Issue with no tailpiece on p. 441 and "The St. Charles Hotel" on p. 443. Covers with light edgewear, discoloration/stain to rear cover. Rear hinge partially cracked. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Interior is bright and clean. Attractive copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYNARD with name and sketch on half title page.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 190 pages, traces of ex-library: glue residue to rear endpaper, tape marks on cloth covers, dust jacket with light edgewear. Small remainder dot on bottom edge. Despite the flaws, an attractive copy of this scarce title. First in the cult trilogy featuring the urbane cad Charlie Mortdecai and his trusty thug, Jock.

Hardcover. New york, Doubleday, Page & Co, 1st thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover with colored stamped decoration on front. Light rubbing to cover boards. Light fraying to corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Author's second book. Minor fading to unclipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Osgood and Company, 1st US, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, bright green cloth, beveled edges. First American Edition with 1879 on title page. Bright green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's signature and date (June 27th 1879) in pencil on blank page preceeding title. There is a light water stain to bottom corner of pages, limited to the margin. It's more pronounced at back of book. Small chip to front endpaper at top corner. Pages slightly wavy. Two 4" stains on several pages where 4 leaf clover was laid in. Over all a tight, attractive copy despite the minor flaws.

Hardcover. NY, Dalkey Archive Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 160 pages, clean copy. Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own Dragon of Industry. The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues will plot a bloody revenge. The fourth element in a tetralogy of novels - Earth (The Stain), Fire (Entering Fire), Water (The Fountains of Neptune) and Air - The Jade Cabinet is both a riveting novel and a reflection on the nature of memory and desire, language and power. Following the novel is an afterword, "Waking to Eden," in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on the quartet of novels completed by The Jade Cabinet.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Rikki Ducornet's boldest imaginative act yet-a brilliant novel about the Marquis de Sade that will forever change the way we regard one of history's most notorious men. Picture a dramatic courtroom scene: during the French Revolution a fan-maker is on trial because of a manuscript seized in her rooms and her friendship with the Marquis de Sade, the notorious author of Justine, who has already been condemned and imprisoned by the same court for his sexual transgressions. Not only has she made exquisite and sexually provocative fans for her friend, but she has also coauthored with the Marquis a book about the infamous Spanish missionary, Bishop Landa, accusing him of massacres and other hideous abuses against the native population of the New World. The men of the court are so consumed with punishing the authors of this scandalous book that they are blinded to the folly of their own accusations against the Marquis. 212 pages, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Pantheon, ARC, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated wrappers, an advanced reading copy. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Finalist for the National Book Award.

NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth, gilt title on spine faded. 74 pages, translated from the German into English by Richard L. Simon. Stream of consciousness novella of pre-WWI Vienna. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. The second book in this series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. Promotional post card laid-in. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Readers International, 1st UK, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, INSCRIBED BY DORFMAN on title page, 1st pub in 1973 in Argentina, translated by George Shivers.

Hardcover. London, UK, Secker & Warbug, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, uncipped dust jacket, 584 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR in front endpapers. Clean.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with 3-color cowboy design on cover, 421 pages. Notable for the 4 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Hinges cracked, pencil inscription on front fly leaf, spine faded, otherwise good.

Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Very good in slipcase. This limited edition, one of 1500 copies hand numbered and signed by illustrator Edward A. Wilson at colophon, contains b/w and color illustrations in gravure throughout. The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 347 pages.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 2nd, 1833, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 - 222 pages. Previous owners name at top of title page. Foxing to pages. Spine cloth faded. Volume 2 - 160 pages. Foxing to pages. Spine cloth faded. Both volumes show light wear overall.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton and Co., 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Translated from the Polish by Norbert Guterman. Polish born writer, acquaintance of Roman Polanski, known to some as Poland's "angry young" and a "Beat" writer. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Harmony Books, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1989 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 470 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AMIS on title page. Small crease to top corner, otherwise Very good.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1st US, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages, with publisher's advertisement in back. Decorated cover and illustrations throughout. Corner and edge wear and fray, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, and spine soiling. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Scribner, ARC, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Near fine in wrappers. 317 pages. Glossy paperback is Advance Reader's Copy. SIGNED BY NELSON. Her third novel.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, small 1 centimeter chunk missing from top spine edge. Small bump on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Longmans Green & Co., 1st US, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 345 pages plus 24 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Bright blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to front and spine. Copyright page states First Edition November,1899, then underneath: Reprinted January 1900. This is the first US Edition and proceeds the UK book publication. The novel (Churchill's only work of fiction) originally was serialized in an English publication, hence the copyright date. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED by author, LETTER laid-in w/xerox of review. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st illust thus, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative boards with black slipcase. 445 pages, color frontispiece and 12 color plates by David Hughes. First published in 1938, recounting the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius (AD 500-565), It was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened all fronts, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a startling and vivid picture of a decadent era. Forward by Lindsey Davis. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Street & Smith , 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 317 pages. Bright, unmarked copy. Cover art of cowboy on mountain.

Hardcover. Ipswitch UK, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Horizontal quarto (10-7/8" x 9") in a three-piece binding of linen sides printed in a pattern of scarlet, slate, and yellow vertical stripes with a shelfback of ochre buckram stamped in gold leaf; 224 pages. Introduction by Stella Gibbons. Designed by John Lewis and printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd. Illustrated by John Griffiths with 2 double-spread color drawings and numerous black-and-white part-page and marginal sketches. Copy #1370 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Verona IT, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovers, two-volume set. Green cloth boards stamped in green and gold with gray endpapers in green paper over boards slipcase with paper spine label. Glassine dust wrappers very good. Signed by artist Fritz Eichenberg on limitation page in back of volume two. (Copy #1370 of 2,000)Books are like new; clean and crisp with no writing or names. Binding tight and pages crisp.

Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages illustrated in color by P. Craig Russell. A first printing of the graphic novel adaptation of the 2002 novel.

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, First Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover. White boards with copper titles to spine. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRIFFIN on title-page.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Minor wear to covers, else a very neat copy.