Novels

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. Pencil marking to preliminary and half title page, some soiling to spine & board edges, and fraying to crown & heel. Red dyed top edge with sunfading. Toning throughout, fingerprint p. 61 and tears to p. 350. Otherwise clean inside. A worn copy that feels comfortable in your hands.

Hardcover. NY, Richard R Smith, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 348 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light toning throughout. Red dyed top edge with some fading. Original dust jacket with tears, chips, and age toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages. Hardcover. Light toning throughout, some tanning to endpapers. Red cover boards with black titles to spine. Clean and unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brick cloth covered boards with gilt titles & gilt compartment lines to spine. Small tear to crown & heel of spine. Light toning to pages throughout, tight binding, a few pages with small spots to gutter, else clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles & green embossed graphic to front, gilt titles to spine. Rear hinge cracked. Light toning throughout.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 4th pr., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 550 pages. Hardcover with light wear, light rubbing to board edges. Tight binding, tight signatures. Decorative header illustrations throughout in black & white. Clean inside and out.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 388 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brick cloth covered boards with green printed titles to cover & spine. Light wear to edges. Light toning to pages throughout, light foxing to endpapers, tight binding, else clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brick boards with light wear to edges, small spot of soil to rear endpaper. Ligth fraying to crown & heel of spine. Clean tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. Light pencil markings throughout. Ex-library copy with all usual stampings and markings. Light soiling to cover board edges., two abrasions on rear fore edge. Retro printed graphic to cover and spine, printed in black & wine. Toning to pages throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rectangular paste down illustration to front board with small chips to edges. Frontis illustration, "Stood and Watched the Ocean and the Sky," in black & white. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Else quite clean, a few small spots to some pages, a nice copy with light toning & tight binding.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket, small spot on front cover. Light pencil markings to some pages, previous owner's bookplate to rear endpaper. Tight binding, tight signatures.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green and white diagonal striped cloth with green and gold embellishments. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and other drawings by Harry W. McVickar. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean. Cloth spine has some fading.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light chipping. Humorous tennis novel by the son of Groucho Marx. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Ford's first book. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chips to corners. small tan stain to top corner (about 1/4" triangle). Unclipped.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. Publisher's release and photo of author laid in. Foxing to top edge. Spine slightly cocked. Else a very clean, tight copy. The author's first work of fiction and his second book to be published (the first being a philosophical work published 1988 under the title "Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970"). Writing of this debut Novel in the New York Times, Anne Gotlieb stated "This is a strange and often wonderful hybrid -- an ebullient philosophical novel in the form of a folktale-cum-black girl's odyssey. It is a book bubbling like a conjure woman's kettle with African lore, preserved intact in the half-magical, half-demeaning world of Hatten County, Georgia."

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 276 pages, SIGNED BY SCOTT on title page at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference in 1997.

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, near fine in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. London, Jantar Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. The unloved wife of a doctor practising in Slovakia comes across his medical notes after his death. One `unofficial patient' has severe problems coming to terms with the disappearance and murder of his childhood sweetheart. Set in Slovakia from the mid-1970s onwards, historical fact, murder, loss and mourning combine delicately in a tale of love, loss, redemption and joy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 157 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, gray laminate dust jacket with color illustration, dark gray endpapers. Clean dust jacket and covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very neat, copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 470 pages. An unfinished novel by the murdered Italian author and filmmaker focuses on Carlo, a left-wing Italian Catholic working for the state-controlled oil company, a man who becomes obsessed with satisfying his perverse, insatiable sexual passions. Small remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise a clean copy of this now scarce book.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 416 pages.INSCRIBED BY GORDON on the title page. When his political activities with the Weather Underground radicals from the 1960s catch up with him, a man finds himself on the run in order to secure the love of his child.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 336 pages. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his facade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem. 

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Debut novel.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, reprint, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 439 pages. Mustard cloth with gilt and black decoration. Hinges cracked, spine cocked, shelfworn. Illustrated with a b&w frontispiece, text sketches throughout, no artist credit. Howard presents the story of a young girl living in the village of Plouvenec who works packing sardines. She falls in love with an artist while supplementing her income by modeling for artists in an artist colony.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pges. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear to cover.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, NBM Comics Lit, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout. Graphic novel in which famed early twentieth century actress Louise Brooks returns to her home town of Wichita, Kansas and gets involved in a murder mystery.

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. US, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to cover.

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 6th pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, gilt titles, 313 pages. First novel in what eventually became a trilogy depicting the gradual redemption of Durtal, the hero of the author's notorious La-Bas (1891), which portrayed the Satanism of fin-de-siecle France (in addition to certain depravities of medieval France). Translated from the French With A Prefatory Note by C. Kegan Paul. Light shef wear.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate pasted in on front end paper. Pasted in paper with quote and author's signature dated 1911 on front fly leaf. HInged are tender, but intact.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with heavy wear to dust jacket. Small closed rips and open tears on bottom. Moderate aged soil throughout, light odor. Otherwise tight copy.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound, accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Illustrated by Richard Krepel. Clean and bright. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Publisher's full tan leather, gilt borders and tooling on covers, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in two of remainder, a.e.g., silk moire endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with color plates by N. C. Wyeth. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean.

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 255 pages. Some wear and scratches to dust jacket, else a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Cresset Press, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. 1st UK. Covers bound in red fabric with gilt title on spine, very good. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has some age wear, light chipping to edges and spine, scratch on front cover (see image). Edges and pages have slight age yellow, but clean.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover. Rare first edition. Covers bound in green with gilt title on spine and front cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Covers show some age wear: moisture stain on back cover, some soil and fraying/chipping on spine. Pages and edges have age-yellowing. Foxing on endpapers and preliminary/back pages, but doesn't affect text. Split at gutters in a few places, but binding still tight. In good condition for its age.

Hardcover. East Yorkshire UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout. In matching slipcase.

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. US, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. In matching slipcase.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Reminiscent of the author's early fiction -- "Room Temperature" and "The Mezzanine." It features Emmett, a man in his forties with a wife, two children, a cat and a duck, who gets up most mornings between 4 and 5 a.m., lights a fire in the living room fireplace with a single match, and thinks about the ordinary things in his life in an extraordinary way. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. INSCRIBED BY HARDING on the title page.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2015., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAGUIRE on the title page with a sketch of a rabbit in a teacup. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY PROULX on title page. Proulx"s first novel, a Pen/Faulkner Award winner from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping News."

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY EGAN on title page. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ?Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished. With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan's first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, one of the great writers of our time.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby. Behold her, Tereza Batista-inspiration to painters, poets, and sculptors (not to mention sailors on shore leave), teacher of the ignorant, lover of the powerful (and powerful lover), healer of the sick, champion of the downtrodden, seasoned veteran-at the peak of her beauty-of life's wars. No wonder the people of Bahia call her, in awe and delight, Tereza of the Thousand Nicknames-all complimentary! Follow Tereza from her birth into direst poverty and bad luck (orphaned before she knew her parents, enslaved at the age of 12) to the great day when she turns the tables on that most splenetic and sadistic of slaveholders, the black-hearted Captain Justo Duarte da Rosa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, like new in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 283 pages. The story of a faith healer (who before that was a rock star manager and a beautician) told in the rich language and texture of a Southerner who can draw you continuously into the world she weaves. Her first novel after a 20-year hiatus.