Novels

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. A novel set in upstate New York in the days of land grants and frontier hardship. And the story of a beautiful young woman so swaggering-proud of herself and uncertain of her desire to grow to womanhood,

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1974, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 289 pages. Beige covers with gold lettering on spine. Dust jacket very clean. Comes with acrylic protective cover. Overall very good condition.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 198 pages. SIGNED BY LEAVITT on title page. Excellent condition.

hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy in clear mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY WARNER on title-page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. A homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle into the Highlands to recover stolen money. 279 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 1st Edition, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in red cloth gilt title on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Personal note inscription on front flyleaf and pages 12-13 (see image). Tanning throughout from age. Related newspaper article laid in, discolored page (see image).

Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Author won the Booker Prize in 1996. Nice copy. Dust jacket shows very light wear but is mostly shiny and new-looking. In his fifth novel, Graham Swift continues to explore the influence of the past on the present through intertwining stories of loss from the 1840s to the end of the twentieth century.

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, 1st UK, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 290 pages, illustrated with b&w drawings by Louis Slobodkin. The first British editon of a book originally published in 1941 in the US. Dust jacket with light edgewear, short tear.

Hardcover. Portand, ME, Thomas B. Mosher, 1st Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Hardcover (soft cardboard) with foreedge overhang to protect edge (see image). "This First Edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies". Untrimmed foreedge. Tan covers, brown title on spine and front cover board with design. Tanning throughout from age. Clean, tight copy in very good condition.

Hardcover. New York , Putnam, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages. Author's 1st novel/ dj reviews from Mary Robison, Carolyn See, W. Kittredge. "In her highly acclaimed debut novel, Karen Karbo combines her caustic wit and compassionate observations to paint a brilliant portrait of Soviet emigres to Los Angeles."

Hardcover. New York , Putnam, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages. Author's 1st novel/ dj reviews from Mary Robison, Carolyn See, W. Kittredge. "In her highly acclaimed debut novel, Karen Karbo combines her caustic wit and compassionate observations to paint a brilliant portrait of Soviet emigres to Los Angeles."

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 340 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 319 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket; in brodart. Spine slightly cocked. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 165 pages. Cast as an accidentally discovered memoir written by a nameless young woman, the Spanish dramatist's newly translated work is more fable and parable than conventional novel. Its 18-year-old narrator/heroine, a kind of beautiful, seductive queen bee, shares a crumbling mansion with her aged father, the "Maimed One," and two women called "The Sisters." She has two principal activities: one is speculation on hierarchies in nature and societya persistent inquiry into the relation of human and insect behavior; the other is the dexterous use of a barber's straight razor, slashing the throats of casual acquaintances just as they reach the throes of sexual rapture. Her few friendsan adoring suma wrestler, a painter with bizarre tastesreveal their own oddities. To pass the time, they plan an orgy featuring paranoics, "depraved couples," sado-masochists and even the notorious Marquis de Sade. The reader never doubts that the speaking voice and questioning mind belong not to the beguiling and terrifying girl but to Arrabal himself. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, England, The Folio Society, 3rd Printing, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Hardcover. Blue and white cover boards, gilt title on spine, pristine, like new. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In navy blue slipcase which has some spots of rubbing, but otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Previous owners name and date at top of front endpaper. Black cloth covers show standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Baker's 1st book.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 2nd printing, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Deckled, untrimmed edges. Green cloth covers. Faded spine, light wear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; some light tanning from age to pages and edges, foxing to edges. Pages unmarked. A very tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages, with drawings by Karen Usborne throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 266 pages. Author's first book. Light wear to dust jacket, else a beautiful copy in protective mylar cover. Taking on a seemingly simple assignment to pinpoint the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential State House documents, private investigators Patrick and Angela uncover a ring of extortion, assassination, and child prostitution.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 782 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Features black & white illustrations by Portia Rosenberg. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with spine-faded dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, G. W. Dillingham, Publisher, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages. Brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Faint foxing to top edge, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light wear to edges aof spine, else a very neat, tight copy in beautiful shape.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 163 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Norfolk, VA, Ink Publishing/Donning, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Color comics throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated covers. Illustrated in color. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Belgique, Lombard, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Color comics throughout. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight, It's as if Raymond Carver were still alive and living in the Deep South. Or, imagine a world created by Jim Harrison and Cormac McCarthy and plunk it down in the woods of southern Alabama, where emotions run as raw as moonshine.Tom Franklin's eloquent deceptively simple prose evokes a world of hunting and fishing, shotgun shacks and trailer parks, poachers, and lawmen, factory workers, poor white trash, and bucket-o-'blood boozers. His stories are laced with naked violence, hot food, and the ever bitter sweat and tears of human relationships.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 283 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel Arrogance, the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature until at the age of twenty-eight, the artist dies in the Great Flu Pandemic. Told from a crosscurrent of voices, viewpoints and times, this stunning novel won Scott a nomination for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket, else a lovely copy.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, turquoise cloth with black and silver stamping. Bright unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. INSCRIBED BY LURIE on front fly leaf .

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt desin. Frontispiece by W. Herbert Dunton. Covers with wear to corners, top and bottom edge of spine.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages. Hardcover. Translated from the French, Les Meteores, by Anne Carter. Ivory cloth boards, with light tone to bottom edge, silver titles to spine. Dust jacket with light age toning, protected with a plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York , Edward Clode, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 349 pages, green cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece illustration. First few pages loose. Small blue pen writing back paste-down. Previous owner's sticker front paste down. Partial wear on front paste-down from missing sticker. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg.

Hardcover. New York , Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 373 pages. Color frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens. Beige cloth covers with ornate floral design in three colors. Half title page with top corner clipped, several pages with tape repairs, otherwise a choice copy of this scarce title.

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 3rd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a small European hotel in the late 1940s a bizarre group of characters, who all seem to be on the run from some past financial, personal or political horror, come together.

Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap , Rep., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in orange, 304 pages plus publisher's ads. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Nice copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1st US, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 239 pages, dust jacket with fading, chipping.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. The third book, a collection of eight short stories, by this Australian-American writer, one which is "a masterpiece of observation which clearly demonstrates the authors perceptive wit. Set in the 1950s, amidst the corridors and offices of the newly created monolithic and meandering bureaucracy of 'the Organization' (read the United Nations, where Hazzard worked for 10 years) an American-based concern intent on inflicting improvement the world over, readers are introduced to an immalleable world hemmed in by regulations, memoranda and mediocrity. A place where once vibrant personalities are smothered and strangulated by red tape, and the general life-sapping realities of paper-pushing and the exacting demands of pointless tasks reign paramount.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 278 pages, very clean and tight copy.The Great Fire was the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett "is brilliant and dazzling..."The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.

Hardcover. Northridge CA, Lord John Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. 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.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Hanover, NH, Wesleyan University Press, 2nd, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, shelf-rubbing to covers, else a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages, b&w illustrations by Jean George. Rich and memorable tales of a lifetime with the animals of the hills and farms of Kentucky. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very neat copy in clear brodart sleeve.

Hardcover. New York, Stokes Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 284 pages, b&w illustrations by the author throughout. Edge wear, yellowing, light soiling to dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This black, bleak comedy tells of parallel lives in Providence, R.I. The Dwyers are middle-class, settled, safe in their lives until the day that Adam, a lawyer, finds out he's going to die of leukemia. Skippy, Babe, and Lisa are young sociopaths on the lookout for fun and fortune. When the lives of these two "families" cross, no one survives without trauma. The result is a diverting gallery of grotesques and grotesqueries, a litany of sex, perversion, violence, crime, and corruption. Providence is a fairy tale with no Good Fairy. Virtue ensures no reward; neither merit nor normal precaution provides sufficient protection to the unfortunate Dwyers. This novel is breezy and entertaining, enjoyable even though it depicts a world that is chilling in the indifference it shows toward ordinary people's cares and concerns.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.