Novels

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.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 210 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SCHINE with her cursory signature on title page. Tight copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BAKER on title-page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Century Company, 1st illustrated, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages. 12x 13". Illustrated with b&w drawings.by the Rhead brothers. Decoration on front cover in limited color of a man running away. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Small dent on rear cover edge. The cover is worn and slightly soiled and age-darkened but otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Cassell, 1st thus, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 172 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gustave Dore. Translated by James Spence Harry. Introduction by Edward J. Harding. Gilt edges. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and gold and black decoration. Beautifully lllustrated with 30 full page plates and numerous in-text vignettes by Gustave Dore. Tears to frontispiece tissue guard. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Chipping, tears to front end paper. Rear endpaper missing. Some markings to covers. Wear to corners and spine. Corners bumped.

Softcover. New York, Pantheon Books, Uncor. Proof, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Softcover with moderate creasing and wear to edges. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's notes throughout. Previous owner was novelist, Jay Parini. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 399 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, & World, 3rd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 432 pages. An early copy of Lewis's famous novel about a preacher who goes off the rails. A very good copy dated 1927 and stated third printing with the "3" at top of copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. British barrister and district coroner Julian Whyte finds his peaceful, uneventful life jeopardized by the return of his older brother, Raymond, an expatriate communist intellectual, and his new German wife, Kristina, in a suspenseful tale of brotherhood, guilt, betrayal, and death. Clean copy.

London, Published at the Punch Office, 1st thus, 1846, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 252 pages of text. Full tan leather binding with elaborate decorative gilt tooling on spine and gilt ruling on edges of boards. Maroon leather spine labels. Original purple publisher's cloth is bound in at the rear (front cover and spine only). Title page is printed in red and black. Frontis portrait and title page engraving by Cruikshank. The first one volume edition. The classic parody of the Commentaries, it went through numerous English and American editions. Cruikshank was the leading English illustrator and caricaturist of his day. He is best known for work for William Hone and Charles Dickens. Lovely copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages in an unclipped dust jacket. Remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise, clean and tight copy. The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals, Buddy has decided to murder his wife and marry his mistress, Laverne, a robust blonde who cooks his favorite meal of fried pork chops, fried potatoes, and fried apples while wearing a short pink apron over black-lace step-ins and brassiere, long-gartered silk stockings, and platform shoes. The only problem is how to arrange the crime.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark green cloth covers, 438 pages plus ads. B&W frontis. illustration, Gilt lettering on spine with Collins's facsimile signature in gilt on cover. A volume from the author's collected works. Antonina was begun in April 1846, delayed for a year during the writing of The Memoirs of William Collins, R.A., and published in 1850. It is written in a laborious, deliberately florid style using detail from Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and modelled on Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). The plot is challenging, with many passages reading like a cross between a guide book to ancient Rome (based on Collins's visit in 1837) and a description of his father's paintings. Other sections, particularly the more horrific and violent, are vividly written and there are already indications of Collins's interest in physical handicap and abnormal states of mind, and his dislike of all forms of extremism. The conflict between the imaginative and artistic Antonina and her stern father is reworked to better effect in Collins's next novel, Basil. Antonina received good reviews, sold consistently and was reprinted throughout Collins's lifetime and well into the twentieth century. Exceptionally bright, 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 in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Donald Fine, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. A Devon village during the hot, dry days of a devastating 1984 summer drought forms the backdrop to the story of thirteen-year-old Alison, youngest child of prosperous farmers, her family, and her friendship with the son of a local viscount.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcopy. Gilt title on spine. Deckled foreedge. Remainder dot on bottom edge. Clean inside and out, in great shape. From the front flap: "At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. ...Goldengrove takes its place among the great novels of adolescence, beside Henry Jame's The Awkward Age and L. P. Harley's The Go-Between."

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY LETHEM on title page. Note signed by him laid in.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. Brodart cover to dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NIXON on title page, also INSCRIBED on opposite page.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1sy, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. Mylar cover. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else like new. "A haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned" - in Africa where a man is recounting his days during the slave trade, in America with a young man serving a sentence of life imprisonment, and in Europe, where a woman, survivor of the Holocaust, realizes that she cannot really escape.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Mylar cover. Slight wear to dust jacket, else like new. Hailed by Time as an "extravagantly comic" novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America's South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum-pool shark On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a "woman named Drown." He moves in with her and just as quickly begins encountering her strange compatriots. Before he knows it, they're heading farther south together--to Florida--where the data that the dropout scientist is collecting from life's laboratory is about to get quite contradictory.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Top edge cosmetic stain. Slight wear and small tears to dust jacket, minor foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy. At the open we have 22 people, some Biblical while some are clearly not even representative, literally dragging God, not quite dead, through various roads, countryside, and towns in order to reach the plot in which He will be buried. Of course, it does not matter that He is dead when they reach their destination. The novel is one of Barthelme's more powerful tales and, as always, full of humor. One cannot read this without thinking that the Monty Python crew was somewhat influenced by this work, philosophically as well as from a creative standpoint. The one surprising footnote to this work is that it is a rather easy read,

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Mylar cover. Light wear to dust jacket, else like new. Released as a translated to English novel in 1978 as a follow up to the monster epic historical fantasy "Terra Nostra," Fuentes displays his versatile written skills with adept perception. This is a captivating spy novel that features many characters but focuses on Felix Maldonado who is a low level Mexican bureaucrat. Maldonado is portrayed as a sort of everyman who suddenly finds himself thrust into bigger than life circumstances. On a day when the president of Mexico is making an appearance Maldonado, who was looking forward to the day suddenly finds himself being involved unvoluntarily into an assassination plot. He is declared dead and given a new identity, a sly bit of writting to create another faceless citizen of Mexico. From here the novel takes off into twists and turns to unravel the mystery and Maldonados and others role in the assassination attempt.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st trade, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 307 pages. Mylar protected dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new. The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free--and meet--her convicted "fiance." With Ward's disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, they barrel down Florida's back roads and seamy places in search of The Story, racing flat out into a shocking head-on collision between character and fate as truth takes a back seat to headline news.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages, like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In The Dangerous Husband, they meet and almost immediately fall in love. Like everyone, they have been alone. He is perfect for her - charming and sexy and awkward and sweet. They are forty; it is time for them to marry and shelter each other. When the honeymoon ends, as honeymoons always do, real life begins, with its surprises. He trips up stairs, falls going down. He cooks a tasty dinner and the kitchen ends up looking like a slaughterhouse. Absorbed in sexual experimentation, he shatters the coffee table. He tenderly wrenches her neck; he breaks her arm. It was turning out that my husband's dishevelment was incomparable, potent, ramifying. It could destroy whole little worlds. It will surely destroy her. Unless she can kill him first.

Hardcover. NY., Norton, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 399 pages. SIGNED BY BAXTER on title page. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy. When assistant city manager Wyatt Palmer enters into a shady business deal he faces consequences that have a profound impact on him and those around him, including brother Cyril, lover Alyse, and mother Jeanne.