Novels

Hardcover. London, UK, Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, illustrated in b&w by James McDonald. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lacks dust jacket. Light wear to edges, slight rubbing to spine, previous owner's inscription of front paste-down, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages, 100 b&w illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Lovely clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor foxing on edges, otherwise, spotless and tight copy. The author's first novel - actually a novel within a novel - a "wryly funny and original novel for Everywoman who has ever asked herself "isn't there more to life than this?"

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edge wear to cover and dust jacket. Tight coy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with moderate wear to covers. Novel of mystery, romance and adventure set among the gold miners of the Yukon in Northwestern Canada, by this British writer-adventurer who traveled extensively in the remote northwest.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY GIBBONS on title page.

Softcover. NY, Grove Press, Special Reader's Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 317 pages, yellow cloth with brown lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. An attractive copy.

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 174 pages. Black & white chapter illustrations by Emil Antonucci. Mild fading to spine of jacket.

Softcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, ARC wraps, 1966, Book: Very Good, Softcover, tan wrappers with type, Advanced Reading Copy. Author is a renowned French film director as well as a screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films. This is his second book and first novel. A memoir of a Parisian gentleman's love for a prostitute pre-World War 1.

Hardcover. London, George Allen, 1st UK, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 298 pages, illustrated in b&w by Hugh Thomson. Blue cloth with gilt decorations and titles, all edges gilt. Light rubbing to edges and spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An historical novel based on the exploits of the colorful John Paul Jones who battled pirates, the Royal Navy, and the short-sighted legislators of his adopted country to achieve fame for himself and freedom for America. Publisher's circled "R" logo indicating a First Edition. Hardcover, 442 pages, wrap-around full color jacket illustrated by Louis James Nolan.

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. 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, 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.