Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue tweed cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 246 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 338 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FFORDE on the title page "Jasper", postcard laid in - The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's wildly popular series. Beloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre Affair, a genre send-up hailed as an instant classic. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, George B. Reed, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 426 pages. Novel set in New Bedford , Mass., `largely founded on fact', presenting characteristic features of Quaker life. Front fly leaf, with top fifth cut off, spine slightly cocked. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 833 pages. At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back to 1870s London, where Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for escape to a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society offers us intimacy with a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was fathered in circuitous circumstances by an Englishman and passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of high caste. Growing up in luxury just downriver from the Taj Mahal, at fifteen the news of Pran's true parentage is revealed and he is tossed out into the street - a pariah and an outcast. Thus begins an extraordinary, near mythical journey of a young man who must invent himself to survive - not once, but many times. Small remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1900, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in decorated red cloth, edgewear to covers, 353 pages. 8 b&w plates, 2 of which are loose (the frontis and page 250). This is a classic in the lost city/civilization genre. In this work, the Lost Continent is the fabulous Lost Continent of Atlantis. The novel was published first in serial form in Pearson's Magazine in the issues for July-December 1899, and in hardcover book form by Hutchinson (London) and Harpers (New York) in 1900. There is a small sticker on the spine, binding shaken but holding. Clean pages.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Mohawk is an outstanding first novel, a poignant, unforgettable story of old passions and enmity set in a leather town in upstate New York where the tanneries have long ago begun to close down. Writing with extraordinary assurance, Richard Russo unfolds the story of a mystery that has bound two families, the Grouses and the Gaffneys, together for over two decades. 'Mohawk' is a drama of small-town life that captures all the comedy and tragedy of the human experience. This is the first hardcover edition of Russo's first novel. The U.S. first edition of Mohawk was published as a softcover original edition by Vintage Originals in 1986. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Hollywood, George Palmer Putnam, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black buckram covered boards, bright yellow stamped titles at front and spine, 96 pages. A fictional anti-nazi novella published in 1939. Name and date on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, no dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st US, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 240 pages. Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 472 pages. A very neat, tight, clean copy. Hailed as a literary masterpiece, Robertson Davies' The Cornish Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in the bestselling Lyre of Orpheus. There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish -- connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric -- whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The grumpy, grimy, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E. T .A. Hoffmann's unfinished opera Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, 2nd printing, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 358 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new with minor, if any wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light sun-fade and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt title on cover and spine. 342 pages. Spine is cocked, faded. The book is a bit shaken but clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two oversized volumes with blue slipcase, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, John Groth in rear of volume 2. Blue and gray cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, illustrations throughout, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 513 pages. Hardcover. Light green boards with dark green and gold gilt decoration on front cover and spine. Some light chipping to edges and corners of boards. Previous owner's inscription dated "Xmas 1894". Pages lightly tanned with age, otherwise unmarked.
Hardcover. London, John Lane, 1st Illustrated edition, 1921, Non-paginated. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with colored woodcuts by Marcia Lane Foster. Light foxing to some pages. Dust jacket shows wear/foxing-now protected by clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth. The third novel by Rebecca West, a modernist novel following the love affair to Harriet Hume and Condroex.Harriet is a prodigy pianist, her love an obsessive corrupt politician. Their love story is set against the backdrop of London in the 1920s, a glittery society with an intriguing cast of characters. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 479 pages. Predestined, Whitman's first and most successful novel, is a remarkably con-trolled, inexorably plotted story of Felix Piers, born to wealth and misfortune, who was predestined to a life of failure. The rich, varied background of New York City's many sides provides the compelling backdrop to this deterministic novel. First published in 1910, one of the titles in the Lost American Fiction Series. The author is an over-looked American literary naturalist whose Predestined compares favorably with the work of Frank Norris. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DELBANCO on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions CLub, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in forest-green cloth, spine stamped in gilt with printed label attached. Introduction by Norman H. Strouse with color and b&w illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Copy #794 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Wells felt that this was his best novel. Very good in a bright yellow slipcase with some darkening to one area.
Softcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st pbk., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 396 pages. Debut novel. This is the story of S.T. George, a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University, who is looking for love and dragons to slay. Momentous forces and a cast of extraordinary characters gather around him and soon George is caught up in an epic struggle. Magical storytelling certain to be reread, laughed over and remembered for a very long time. Clean, tight 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, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Franny Fuller, a frightened girl from upstate New York, becomes the nation's number-one sex symbol, hiding her personal misery and fragile personality behind a mask of glamour and ambition. Novel set in Hollywood around the late 1930s. Unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran & Company, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green and white, 469 pages. Irish descendants of a horse thief sacrifice love and freedom for position and security in Victorian period. Woodcuts by Freda Bone. When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the Considines a leading Mellick family. In turn, his son Anthony builds a fine house in the country for his wife and children--most especially for his adored son Dennis. Little does he know that when Dennis grows up he will threaten the toil of generations with his love for a peasant girl. A stirring family saga of divided loyalties and individual freedom; of matches made and lost; and of the constraints of religion and family pride. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a black-lettered leaf-green cloth spine over grass-green boards; in a illustrated dust jacket with striking artwork by Leo and Diane Dillon. Historical novel of the XVIII dynasty pharaoh, Akhenaten, told from the perspective of his strong, proud mother, Empress Tiye, who effectively ruled Egypt for years. Gedge's earlier Egyptian novel, CHILD OF THE MORNING was hailed by critics.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous New England writers suddenly go up in smoke, he must prove his innocence by uncovering the identity of this literary-minded arsonist. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with light fading to the spine, 367 pages. Translated from the Russian by H.C. Stevens. Continuation the story begun in Virgin Soil Upturned (1935) of a collective farm organized under the supervision of the Communist Party in a small Don village. 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 light edgewear, chipping, 323 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with brown lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 301 pages. Rear dj lists Triangle Books. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Cornerstone Books, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards. 152 pages. This is the large-print edition of a book first published in 1975. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, Anansi, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages. Slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease, Donald, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, begins dictating family stories he has never shared with anyone, hoping to preserve history for his children. The dignity of Donald's death and his legacy encourages his loved ones to find a way to redeem and let go of the past, whether through his daughter's immersion in Chippewa religious ideas or his mourning wife's attempt to escape the malevolent influence of her own father. A deeply moving book about origins and endings, and how to live with honor for the dead, Returning to Earth is one of the finest novels of Harrison's long, storied career, and will confirm his standing as one of the most important American writers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Unable to cope with his huge inheritance, Jonathan Whalen searches for an escape in the drug culture. Stated First Edition with B in letter line. 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. NY, Reagan Arthur Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. His second novel, after THEN WE CAME TO THE END, which won the PEN/Hemingway prize for best first book of fiction. The New Yorker chose Ferris as one of the twenty best authors under the age of 40 in 2010. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Overall, clean tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 272 pages. Moving from the Great Lakes to the jazz bars of Detroit and Chicago, Of Song and Water is a tale of singlehanded sailors and jazz musicians, of working-class dreams blighted by family duty, personal betrayals, and the untold violence between fathers and sons. The novel follows the life of Coleman Moore, a jazz guitarist of early fame who finds himself adrift and in the company of ghosts: his mentor, a black jazz legend trying to live peacefully on the edge of a white town; his grandfather, a Prohibition rumrunner turned ruthless entrepreneur; and his first love, a clear-headed woman who refuses to live in the dark tunnels of the past. As he abandons music and turns his mind to a damaged sailboat, Coleman begins a hazardous course, risking the love of his daughter and the trust of Brian James, his longtime collaborator and friend. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 337 pages. A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic fable and chronicle of the Chukchi people and a breathtaking adventure story. It is the story of John MacLellan, a young Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded among the native people of the arctic coast. It is the story of one Chukchi community that adopts a crippled stranger and teaches him to live as a "true human being." During the long winter, John comes to know his new companions--first as untutored primitives, then in the romantic light of noble savages and finally as a real people who share the best and worst of human traits with his own kind. Tragedy strikes, and a life is lost and re-given; a man rises to take the place of a boy; wounds are healed with compassion, honesty and love. And when difficult times loom ahead, it is his new family that John will fight to preserve. Rytkheu's empathetic voice guides us across the magnificent landscape of the North and reveals all the complexity and beauty of a vanishing world. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering. Bright, unclipped dust jacket (red title on spine with VERY slight fade. SIGNED BY PRICE on the front fly leaf. His first book.
Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 260 pages. Originally entitled ADEPTS OF AFRICA, SHADOWS OF ECSTACY, which was written in seven weeks in 1925, was the first novel Williams wrote but the fifth to be published in 1933. Follows the story of Nigel Constantine, an evangelical preacher who discovers the ability to cheat death. The charismatic occult leader stirs up an African revolt against Western Europe, with predictably devastating results. An unusual work on the occult and spiritualism, dealing with themes of colonialism, power, and global politics. Charles Williams, 1886-1945, was an English writer and theologian. He was a friend of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and was a member of their informal Oxford literary group, the Inklings. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Noonday Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 237 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER TO MAURICE WINOGRAD, YIDDISH WRITER AND POET - INCLUDES NOTE GIFTING BOOK FROM WINOGRAD TO MANHATTAN RESIDENT MORRIS SALANT. Degree of toning to pages, darkening to pages 116 - 117 where note was laid. Dust jacket with chipping to edges, chunks of paper missing at top and bottom of spine - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY LOWRY on title-page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with only light edge wear to covers. Autographed copy sticker on front dj. Marcus Clay and Dimitri Karras return from the acclaimed thriller, King Suckerman, as they square off against drug lords and racists on the crime-ridden streets of the nation's capital in the midst of the 1980s.
 "The Lost Maverick Queenby: Zane Grey")
 "Forlorn Riverby: Zane Grey")
 "Thursday Next: First Among Equals (SIGNED COPY)by: Fforde, Jasper")
 "A Quaker Home by: George Fox Tucker")
 "The Crimson Petal and the Whiteby: Michel Faber")
 "The Impressionist by: Hari Kunzru")
 "The Lost Continentby: Cutcliffe Hyne")
 "Mohawkby: Russo, Richard")
 "The Man Who Killed Hitlerby: Anon.")
 "What a Piece of Work I Am by: Eric Kraft")
 "A Change of Timeby: Ida Jessen /Martin Aitken (Translator)")
 "The Lyre of Orpheusby: Davies, Robertson")
 "A Hole in the Earthby: Bausch, Robert")
 "Master, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Toibin, Colm")
 "Dream's Endby: Smith, Thorne")
 "Gone With the Wind (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)by: Mitchell, Margaret and John Groth")
 "John March Southernerby: Cable, George W.")
 "Headswoman, Theby: Grahame, Kenneth")
 "Harriet Hume: A London Phantasyby: West, Rebecca")
 "Predestined: A Novel of New York Life by: Stephen French Whitman")
 "Possession (SIGNED COPY)by: Delbanco, Nicholas")
 "Tono Bungayby: Wells, H. G./Lynton Lamb")
 "Fool on the Hill: A Novelby: Matt Ruff")
 "Goodbye by: William Sansom")
 "This Day's Madness by: Van de Water, Frederic F.")
 "The Star-Born by: Henry Williamson")
 "The Missing Person by: Grumbach, Doris")
 "Without My Cloak by: O'Brien, Kate")
 "The Twelfth Transforming by: Gedge, Pauline")
 "Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novelby: Brock Clarke")
 "The Hash Knife Outfit by: Zane Grey")
 "Twin Sombrerosby: Zane Grey")
 "Tuck Everlastingby: Natalie Babbitt")
 "Returning to Earthby: Jim Harrison")
 "The Devil Treeby: Jerzy Kosinski")
 "Lady's Timeby: Alan V. Hewat")
 "Killing Mister Watsonby: Peter Matthiessen")
 "King Alfred's Jewel by: Katrina Trask")
 "Octavia E. Butler: Lilith's Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy: Dawn /Adulthood Rites /Imagoby: Octavia E. Butler")
 "Unnamed, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Joshua Ferris")
 "Of Song and Water: A Novelby: Joseph Coulson")
 "A Dream in Polar Fogby: Yuri Rytkheu (Author), Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse (Translator)")
 "Wanderers, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Price, Richard")
 "Washington Square Ensemble, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Bell, Madison Smartt")
 "Shadows of Ecstasyby: Charles Williams")
 "Satan in Goray (SIGNED COPY)by: Singer, Isaac Bashevis")
 "Silent Boy, The (SIGNED)by: Lowry, Lois")
 "The Sweet Forever (signed COPY)by: Pelecanos, George P.")
 "The Lottery: Adventures of the Demon Loverby: Jackson, Shirley")