Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Silver gilt ornate decoration on front and spine. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Light soil on bottom spine, and light edgewear on edges. A period story set in the Okefenokee Swamp with illustrations by E.W. Kemble, including three images showing black people, and one scene of a dog fighting a cougar.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., reprint, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green cloth lettereed and decorated in gilt and black. 239 pages, Illustrated with 36 drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 ?- April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Primarily a short story writer this is one of his few novels. A very clean, bight copy.
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. 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, 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. London, Citadel Press, 1st illust thus, 1948, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cream jacket decorated in black and green. With 12 black and white woodcuts by Helen Munro.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thirty years after leaving Eunola, Mississippi, to pursue her dreams of becoming a dancer, Leland Standard returns with her son, and a dinner party given in her honor brings to light the secrets, desires, and life stories of the guests. Clean copy.
Softcover. Reno NV, University of Nevada Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 211 pages. Neider's novel has been praised as one of the great westerns of all time, up there with "Shane" and "The Ox-Box Incident". It loosely follows the facts of the Billy the Kid story, but it is not intended as a retelling of that story. It is written in the style of a person-to-person narrative as told by the man who shot the Kid. INSCRIBED BY NEIDER on the front fly leaf. Clean copy. First published in 1956, the book was the basis of Marlon Brando's only directing effort, "One-Eyed Jacks", which the author covers in his Preface.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A riveting, suspenseful read. The story follows the aftermath of a brutal home invasion that leaves one family dead and another struggling to rebuild. As the investigation unfolds, the reader is plunged into the heart of the family's lives and is left wondering who could have committed such a heinous act.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light wear on 3/4 cloth binding covers.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with black illustration and lettering. 670 pages illustrated with contemporary prints. Historical novel of the destruction of Charleston (symbol of an era) , with a man of destiny theme. Young Perry wants to be a gentleman; he is tutored by the man who eventually turns out to be his grandfather. He does newspaper work in Charleston, he does his bit in the Civil War; the siege of Charleston forms the local point for Northern hatred. Spine cloth worn at top and bottom, 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, light blue cloth with dark blue lettering, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 302 pages plus publisher's ads. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering on spine and decoration on front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, wraparound color art by Frank Street. 291 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt titles on spine, color illustrated on cover pastedown, 263 pages, 6 color and 8 b&w plates by Will James. Previous owner's name on front endpapers. Otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss--making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief. SIGNED BY BARNES on a blank prelim page, clean copy.
Hardcover. San Antonio TX, Wings Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A social satire set in Paris, this previously unpublished novel is based in part on the U.S. Supreme Court's censorship trial regarding the author's first novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket with $2.00 on flap. First edition with colophon on copyright page. Chunk gone from dj at top corner. An adventure set in Alaska, Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London/NY, John Lane Company, 3rd Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. 180 pages, color frontis. In this historical romance, Katrina Trask brings to life the story of King Alfred's Jewel, a precious gem from the time of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs. The novel follows the jewel's journey through the centuries, and the lives of the people who owned and cherished it, from medieval times to the present day. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Library Of America, 1st thus, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 832 pages. From the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred, the Parable novels, and Bloodchild, here in its spellbinding entirety is Octavia E. Butlers epic of human survival and transformation. Conceived against a backdrop of Reagan-era nuclear brinksmanship, Liliths Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogya classic of Afrofuturist speculative fiction offers profound reflections on race, biology, colonialism, resistance, consent, sexuality, community, hybridity, technology, power, and the future of humankind.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new and SIGNED BY KALAM on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Summit Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 834 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Slight wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy, in clear protective brodart cover.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Faint foxing to top edge, light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria. For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st UK, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Ever After is a rumination on death, faith, and finding meaning in life more than a proper novel. The narrator, Bill Unwin, is recovering from a failed suicide. His convalescence is used to muse over the fate of the father he never knew, and who may not even have been his father, and the ravings of his hedonistic mother over the vanity of posterity. Meanwhile, he is withholding the manuscript of one of his Victorian ancestors from a fellow Cambridge don, a vain, publicity-seeking but successful rival. This is finally the motive for a second, parallel plot, in many ways the more interesting, about the Victorian in forebear in question, Matthew Pearce. For Pearce, surveyor, amateur fossil-collector, and son-in-law to the local parson, is a man of his age, scientifically inclined yet religious. Lyell, Darwin cannot fail to attract Pearce, yet they also threaten his marriage and family, his very social standing. 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, Graywolf Press, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 258 pages. Translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born This novel about a Norwegian retiree reflecting on incidents from his youth was an international success, received several awards and was named a Best Book of 2007 by the New York Times First published in Oslo in 2003, this first English translation was published in London in 2005. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white cloth with gilt lettering on spine, and author's initials on front cover. #253 out of 300, numbered and SIGNED BY DILLARD and in a printed slipcase. Dillard's first novel, a tale of rough settlement life in northwest Washington state in the 1850s. Clean, bright 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, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 278 pages. A gossipy, humorous story of middle-class angst in a New England town in the 1950s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 235 pages, top edge gilt. A novel from English author Henry Williamson in which he uses the concept of the stars - a regular feature in his work - to explore the nature of good and evil, with the author describing it as a celestial fantasy. With full plate and vignette wood engravings from Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The story of the Ill-fated Donner Party and the ordeal of being stuck in the Sierras through winter in the 1840's. The late author lived in the house once occupied by Patty Reed, the Donner party survivor whose family is the subject of the book.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with some chipping. A novel of intrigue set in post World War II North Africa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with lettering on dj in gilt. First printing with all numbers present including 1. Rushdie's most controversial work, for which he received death threats and a Fatwah post-publication. 'Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.'- Rushdie. The book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. Related news clipping laid in.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nominated for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.-the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream-who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, First Edition thus. SIGNED by Updike, with "special message" by him and b&w illustrations by Michael Deas not in the trade edition. Basis for the movie of the same name starring Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon as the three repressed women who accidentally conjure what they believe to be the perfect man (Jack Nicholson, playing the devil). Full green, gilt-decorated leather; all edges gilt; ribbon place marker. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 308 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Missing front fly leaf, clean copy.
Hardcover. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Green cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. 1054 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Ardmore PA, Dorrance and Co., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Inscribed to Roger Shattuck, literary critic and historian, w/ letter and postcard laid in. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Riverhead , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Aloft offers a reexamination of the American dream from the inside out, through the voice of Jerry Battle, a suburban middle-aged man who has lived his entire life on Long Island, New York. Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane solo; slipping away for quick flights over the Island or to the coastal towns of New England, Jerry has been disappearing for years. Then a family crisis occurs, and Jerry finds he must face his disengagement in his relationships: with his deceased wife, the circumstances of whose death he has never fully accepted; with his former girlfriend, whom he still longs for; with his daughter, who refuses to address the disease that threatens her life; with his son, who is in danger of losing the family business; and with his father, whom he has placed in a nursing home. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth stamped in black. 313 pages, an attractive reprint of this western title with 4 color plates by Frank Tenny Johnson. Originally published in 1914. Clean copy.
Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, Ardis, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. Translated by A.R. Tulloch. The novel 'The Naked Year' (1921) brought Pilnyak immediate fame. It contains a graphic description of the worst year of the Russian Civil War. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, hardcover. Color illustrations by John Cecil Clay. Margaret Armstrong cover desIgn. Spine has half-inch tear near author's name. Bumping to corners. Unmarked. A tight copy.
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