Novels

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Truth Seeker Company, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and gilt. Morgan Andrew Robertson [1861-1915] was an American author and the self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope. This title is apparently his rare first book- a narrative poem about heaven versus the devil. B&w frontis and great text illustrations by A. Carey K. Jurist. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 192 pages. Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who, escaping his Russian captors, is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent, and, across the frontier, picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety? Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an nclipped dust jacket that has fading to spine. Basis for the 1976 award-winning film directed by Bruno Barreto, starring Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendonca. Dona Flor is an adorable woman - with a body made for love, a mind of her own, a cozy disposition, a witty tongue, a kissable face, high moral principles - and she can cook, too. One wants her to have everything. And she gets it all-but, alas, from two different men! The question: is it possible for a moral woman like Flor to enjoy two husbands at once? Clean copy.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzman, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and INSCRIBED on half-title. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED. Doyles's hastily scrawled signature on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY HIJUELOS on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HEGI on prelim. page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Minor edgewear, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel looking at the concerns of overpopulation. The story centers around one man standing in a mile long line to present an outlandish petition. The character and location descriptions bring them to life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line from 1 to 10; SIGNED BY RUSHDIE on the half-title page with no inscription. DJ in metallic silver printed in blue lettering.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Dust jacket wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, yellow wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new.

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 164 pages. When David's parents, who argue all the time, decide to take separate vacations, they agree to send him to his Grandma Ruthie's--whom he hardly knows--for a whole month! But the quiet town she lives in offers David the people, events, and ideas that help him realize what is best for his own future. Clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st thus, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Edited by Henry F. May. First published in 1869, this is the first modern edition of the novel many think is the author's best work. 614 pages, small closed tear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Spanning from the end of the nineteenth century, when the colonizers carved up Africa, on through the tumultuous decades of revolt and suppression that followed, 'Afterlives' is an astonishingly moving portrait of survivors refusing to sacrifice their humanity to the violent forces that assail them." Clean copy.

Softcover. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps. Paperback original. Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Signed by author on title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated black and blue boards, 522 pages. This volume contains: Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable and How It Is. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated black and blue boards, 478 pages. This volume contains: Murphy/Watt/Mercier and Camier. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, uclipped dust jacket. A moving and evocative look inside the world of rock and roll follows Laurie Moss as she leaves her native Texas in 1994 seeking stardom in California, where she struggles against the rampant sexism and cruelty of the music business.

NY, Lincoln MacVeagh. Dial Press, 1st US, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and vignette on front cover, 290 pages. A Story of Northern Ireland before the Revolution. Rich in humor and humanity, it was one of the six novels chosen, out of thousands by Harrap, the English publisher for a cash prize. The green cloth has discoloration, washed out splotches mostly to rear cover and part of spine. The interior is clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. NY, First Second, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent his career cultivating. In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? Two-color art throughout by Brian "Box" Brown. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Historic novel set in 17th century Spain during the Inquisition. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new.

Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new. Richard Bausch "tells the heartwarming and riotously funny coming-of-age story of Walter Marshall, whose fumblings toward manhood coincide with cataclysmic change in the country."

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid in. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Tan cloth, white spot to front cover. Dust jacket with acetate cover, minor wear to edges, light spotting, price-clipped. Tanning to front and back end pages. Stated first printing on copyright page.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 473 pages plus ads. Hardcover. Some darkening and fading to endpapers. Blue cloth covers with title and illustration in gilt on spine. Covers show light wear with minor rubbing to corners and edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. Maus is a holocaust survival story, a biography, and an autobiography. Written as a graphic novel (and winner of a Pulitzer Prize), Art Spiegelman captures the process of interviewing his father while simultaneously telling his father's story. In that sense, the text is very self-reflexive - there are parts in it showing Spiegelman working to create the very page you read, as previous parts of the his father's story are reintroduced from previous portions of the text. The story is complex. It not only details the horrors of the holocaust and the extreme lengths to which people went to survive, but it also captures the harrowing guilt survivors faced, and the lifelong aftereffects of the war. It also shows the struggle between father and son, both through the lens of a typical familial challenge, and of those unique between a survivor and child born afterwards.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Jasper Fforde's novel introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England. In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid-in. The sequel to Fforde's first literary detective novel, The Eyre Affair, starring the inimitable protagonist, Thursday Next. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. 5th in the Thursday Next series. Promotional postcard laid-in. ("Tricks of the Trade Revealed" postcard #7 showing Fforde and his clones manically signing books.). Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid-in. (Juris Tech Respirator). Exhausted by her hectic stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, is delighted by a supposed respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, plot devices, grammasites, and a murderer. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid-in. (Swindon PD Speed Camera). Exhausted by her hectic stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, is delighted by a supposed respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, plot devices, grammasites, and a murderer. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author and dated on the title page, without dedication. Color illustration. Exhausted by her hectic stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, is delighted by a supposed respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, plot devices, grammasites, and a murderer. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2011, 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 sixth novel in the 'Thursday Next' series. Clean, like new. Collectors postcard included.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war." Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Weybridge VT, Cherry Tree Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages. Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was the most outstanding representative of German writers in Switzerland during the middle to late nineteenth century. Das Sinngedicht is a complex work that examines the matrimonial relationship in a slightly humorous vein. The author's treatment is particularly interesting since he never married. Clean copy. SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR on the title page.

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press , 1st thus, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with intricate gilt design and color paste-down illustration on front cover. This is the first modern edition of Little Women to feature the complete illustrations of Clara Miller Burd, originally executed in 1926. Burd's brilliant color plates and detailed drawings bring the world of the March family to life. An introduction by Alice A. Carter, an expert on Golden Age illustration, explores Burd's life and the work of early twentieth-century women illustrators.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with color label illustration pasted to front cover, title stamped in white. 346 pages, illustrations by B. Martin Justice. Minor shelf wear. This story set in the American West centers around the adopted daughter of the town marshall and the mystery surrounding her parentage.

Softcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes and Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages, book and dust jacket in excellent condition. The paper used has tanned/yellowed. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Princeton, Ontario Review Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages, a clean, tight copy in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY POVERMAN on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st , 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light mauve cloth with a green, white and gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. 4 color plates by Howard Pyle. Front hinge crack, light soil, wear to covers, internally very good. A story set in 14th Century Venice.

Hardcover. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards, 172 pages. One of the most innovative films ever made, Sam Peckinpah's motion picture The Wild Bunch was released in 1969. From the outset, the film was considered controversial because of its powerful, graphic, and direct depiction of violence, but it was also praised for its lush photography, intricate camera work, and cutting-edge editing. Peckinpah's tale of an ill-fated, aging outlaw gang bound by a code of honor is often regarded as one of the most complex and impactful Westerns in American cinematic history. The issues dealt with in this groundbreaking film-violence, morality, friendship, and the legacy of American ambition and compromise-are just as relevant today as when the film first opened. To acknowledge the significance of The Wild Bunch, this collection brings together some of the leading Peckinpah scholars and critics to examine what many consider to be the director's greatest work. The book's nine essays cover an array of topics. Explored are the function of violence in the film and how its depiction is radically different from what is seen in other movies, the background of the film's production, the European response to the film's view of human nature, and the strong sense of the Texas/Mexico milieu surrounding the film's action. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st UK, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy, mild cock to spine.