Used, Rare & Out-of-Print Novels

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with lettering on dj in gilt. First printing with all numbers present including 1. Rushdie's most controversial work, for which he received death threats and a Fatwah post-publication. 'Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.'- Rushdie. The book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. Related news clipping laid in.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nominated for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.-the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream-who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 829 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, First Edition thus. SIGNED by Updike, with "special message" by him and b&w illustrations by Michael Deas not in the trade edition. Basis for the movie of the same name starring Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon as the three repressed women who accidentally conjure what they believe to be the perfect man (Jack Nicholson, playing the devil). Full green, gilt-decorated leather; all edges gilt; ribbon place marker. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 308 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Missing front fly leaf, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 385 pages. SIGNED (MORE LIKE INITIALED) with a big J on the title page. Clean bright copy with a gold signed sticker on dj cover.

Hardcover. Moscow, Foreign Language Publishing, 1st transl. thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 439 pages. Goncharov's first novel, preceding his masterpiece Oblomov by twelve years - is a study of lost illusions and rude spiritual awakening in the modern world. Translated by Ivy LitvinovaNo date, appears to be a 1950s printing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. This classic novel, the 1972 winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, turns, providing an essential companion piece to The King of Cards. Illuminated by the author's personal experiences, this authentic coming-of-age novel presents a cavalcade of memorable characters and adventures. Brave, honest, funny and thought-provoking, Shedding Skin is Ward's account of his early travails in Haight Ashbury (and other parts). He draws the reader into chaos, delusion, humor, criminality and the human condition on an intimate level. Short closed tears to dj, rear panel scratched, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1st, 1989, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The underworld of tabloid journalism and the people who work in it provide some of the witty, wisecracking dialogue in this quasi-detective novel. Kotzwinkle is the author of The Fan Man, Dr. Rat and Fata Morgana. He has won various awards and the praise of, among others, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield and various national media. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The tale of a 17th-Century American girl who ends up an emperor's mistress in India. Hannah Easton, born in 1670 in the forests of Massachusetts, at age 15 moves to Salem with adoptive parents after her father dies of a bee sting and her mother - during the French and Indian War-runs off with a lover from the Nipmuc tribe. Having witnessed scalpings and worse, and harboring the terrible secret of her mother's having gone over to the ``barbarians,'' Hannah is a deeper well than most young girls, suffering trance-like illnesses but also excelling at needlework - including the surgical variety, learned in the war. Her oddnesses, though, are no impediment to marriage with the dashing adventurer Gabriel Legge, who takes her first to England, then to India, where Gabriel joins the East India Company before going independent as a pirate - a calling that will bring him fame and wealth, but also, at last, death. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PARINI on the title page. When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter-day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 213 pages. Author's first book, a rather off-beat coming-of-age story. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with tape repairs. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Vidal's second novel, a work with some gay aspects but one in which the author felt he played things a bit too safely. "Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city." Book is tight and clean. There is some light soil, foxing to the dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 194 pages. A heartfelt masterpiece about the joys of travel, reading, and companionship. In rural Canada, dotted along the coast of a vast mauve river, live villagers of different stripes: a recently divorced hydroplane pilot, a factory-worker who closely resembles her fisherman husband, a probing motorcyclist with a pet St. Bernard, a pair of beautiful blonde joggers, and other curious characters. For all their differences, each is brought together by a soft-spoken man, referred to only as "the Driver," who travels up and down the coast each season, delivering books to areas not served by libraries and listening closely to the villager's tales and to their woes. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green with gilt lettering, 431 pages plus publisher's ads. Color frontis and 7 b&w plates by Irma Deremeaux. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Henry Augustus Shute (1856-1943) was an American lawyer, judge and writer, who was best known for his humorous stories of small-town New England life, particularly his series of Plupy books inspired by his boyhood in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 404 pages, color frontispiece and 3 duo-tone plates by J.N. Marchand. With the scarce dustjacket, light edgewear, chipping to corners. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small dent on cover and red dot sticker on last page, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. North Point Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages. The journals of seven very different alchemists evoke the mystery of pre-Renaissance times and a sense of humanity for today. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2nd Printing, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Hardcover. Stated on copyright page: "New Edition, March 1966". Minor foxing to top edge. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear along edges. Small pea sized stains at very bottom of pages 152 through 159. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. Hardcover. Yellow endpapers. Some agewear. Black cover boards, tan quarter cloth. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly tanned, some chipping with light agewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. Very good condition. Kosinski has written a modern parable, which is actually a suspense story. It is remarkable for its tension, wit, and irony. It is exciting, and it is memorable.

Hardcover. New York, Carroll and Graf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 301 pages. Author Chris Bohjalians 2nd book. Some edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with light fading to spine. Internally very good. Marcia Middleton finds the body of her husband, Brian, hanging from the attic rafters of their new house in Deering, Vt. Relocated New Yorkers, the couple had moved only a month before--shortly after Brian had confessed to an adulterous affair. An autopsy reveals that the victim was dead before his body was hoisted. Once the police learn about Brian's indiscretion and his wife-beating, they label Marcia a murder suspect.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 295 pages. West's unfinished novel, the subsequent chapters following This Real Night. A feminist novel that reveals both the problems of marriage and the ecstasies of sexual love, completing the final chapters of the saga that began with THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS, and continued with THIS REAL NIGHT. Afterword by Victoria Glendinning. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria. For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.

Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st UK, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Ever After is a rumination on death, faith, and finding meaning in life more than a proper novel. The narrator, Bill Unwin, is recovering from a failed suicide. His convalescence is used to muse over the fate of the father he never knew, and who may not even have been his father, and the ravings of his hedonistic mother over the vanity of posterity. Meanwhile, he is withholding the manuscript of one of his Victorian ancestors from a fellow Cambridge don, a vain, publicity-seeking but successful rival. This is finally the motive for a second, parallel plot, in many ways the more interesting, about the Victorian in forebear in question, Matthew Pearce. For Pearce, surveyor, amateur fossil-collector, and son-in-law to the local parson, is a man of his age, scientifically inclined yet religious. Lyell, Darwin cannot fail to attract Pearce, yet they also threaten his marriage and family, his very social standing. Clean copy.

Softcover. Champaign IL, Dalkey Archive Press, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 201 pages. Slovenian novel. In an unnamed city shrouded in mist, Valent Kosmina is a retiree living quietly yet discontentedly with his doped-up, TV-addicted wife. To escape the claustrophobia of home and city, he masquerades as a man of means and takes to spending his nights strolling through an opulent suburb - but when news comes of a gruesome murder on his new turf, Kosmina fears that he may be a suspect. Increasingly anxious and paranoid, Kosmina begins to see a mysterious dark-haired girl following him everywhere - and as this succubus takes hold of him, Kosmina finds his familiar city becoming indistinguishable from the landscape of his own nightmares. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Sag Harbor NY, Permanent Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEFILIPPI to fellow author Barry Estabrook on the title page. Fate-driven story of boyhood friendship and its unraveling. A nostalgic revisiting of childhood shenanigans during the 1950's and 60's in a tough section of Long Island called Duck Alley. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 369 pages, cover design by Decorative Designers, 12 b&w illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY IRVING at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference in red ink on the half-title page. A whimsical family saga of a hotel and a bear and an opera house. Irving's fifth published novel and the basis for a 1984 film adaptation by director Tony Richardson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The critically acclaimed, award-winning lawyer/author's follow-up book to his "Wartime Lies" debut. The story of the last two years of Ben's life, told by his closest friend, Jack, who pieces the facts together from his own memory and from the personal papers that come into his possession as executor of Ben's will. It is the story, most particularly, of Ben's tumultuous love affair with Jack's cousin Veronique, a woman whose dazzling beauty masks darkness and disquiet. Wi th Veronique, Ben discovers "the vast bliss of being loved." But when her husband learns of the affair and a commitment to Veronique is required, Ben discovers his own fragility-and the brutal hold his past has on him." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1995, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 355 pages. Unclipped dust jacket wit slight rubbing, sticker residue. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. The lives of two very different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 11th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. "Early Novels and Stories" presents the novels and short stories that established Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism with rare verbal eloquence. This volume includes his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), "Giovanni's Room" (1956), and other early works. 970 pages, Remainder mark to bottom edge otherwise like new.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 221 pages. When their friend Tommy Apple dies leaving them a million dollars and unanswered questions about his drug dealings, Joe and Judy Constantine are pressured to cooperate both with Tommy's cronies and with federal agents. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's debut novel. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Charter Books, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages. With a new introduction by the author. Presents the story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. Written in Henry's own words, this funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. First published in 1953. Price blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 181 pages. First appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker. The traditional tale retold. In a series of short chapters the captious heroine is obliquely revealed as a woman regularly pleasured in a shower cubicle by the seven dwarves for whom she performs 'horsewifely' duties; the prince is a fop, and the stepmother is almost an incidental presence in relation to the potently amoral Hogo (one of several 'introduced' characters to the fable). Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 309 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Printed for I. Riley and Co, 2nd Ed., 1806, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The First Settlers of Virginia, an Historical Novel, Exhibiting a View of the Rise and Progress of the Colony at James Town, a Picture of Indian Manners, the Countenance of the Country, and its Natural Productions. Hardcover, Second edition, considerably enlarged. Contemporary calf over boards. Octavo. xii, [13]-284 pages. PLEASE NOTE: No frontispiece engraving of Pocahontas rescuing John Smith. No signs of extraction, so probably never bound in. A reproduction of the frontis laid in. This is one of the earliest American romantic novels about Native Americans. Davis was an English immigrant with literary aspirations who lived in Philadelphia at the beginning of the 19th century. He was acquainted with the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. He originally adapted this material from his 1803 "Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America" and published it in 1805 as "Captain Smith and Princess Pocahontas: An Indian Tale." This expanded version includes Davis's autobiography, "A Memoir of the Author" (pp. {275]-284). Includes "Errata" on page [274]. Clean, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 306 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 213 pages. A coming of age story set in the early days of WW2. Jeffrey Stone just out of college, embarks on an bizarre adventure to discredit his father before he leaves for war.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A harrowing odyssey of love and betrayal on the high seas-and in the shadowy corners of the human heart. At fifty-nine, Harold Snow has seen his share of death. His baptism of fire came on his twenty-first birthday, on a navy ship in the Coral Sea, when a Japanese kamikaze pilot slammed into the deck. Years later, in the aftermath of a typhoon in the Bay of Bengal, he lay awake on a ship surrounded by thousands of drowned corpses and listened to the sharks feed. Now, serving as boatswain aboard the Tarshish, a decrepit tanker whose papers are as suspect as its seaworthiness, a weary Snow feels death creeping closer than ever. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with gilt, 369 pages. Illustrations by F. R. Gruger and W. Glackens. A series of short stories about the goings on of White's small town (Emporia, Kansas) and the lives of its residents. Hinges cracked. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black gilt-stamped cloth. Copyright page states 1924 with a K-Y code. No date on title page. A collection of satires written by poet Edna St. Vincent Millay under pseudonym as "Nancy Boyd." Millay offers a preface under her own name to "Boyd's" work, and writes, "I take pleasure in recommending to the public these excellent small satires, from the pen of one in whose work I have a never-failing interest and delight." Millay had written and published these dialogues and short-short yarns in a range of monthly magazines during the early twenties, the period of her greatest popularity and the period during which she wrote some of her most memorable and somber poetry. Gilt lettering is bright on cover but faded on spine. Spine cracked at half-title page, name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 184 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. A novel of "wartime love and death" in the London of 1917. In the heroine Julia Ashton, Doolittle creates a vibrantly sensitive character through the evocation of her feelings, moods and memories. Previous bookseller's price sticker on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly worn dust jacket. 240 pages, turquoise cloth covers, silver lettered spine. Red-violet endpapers, top outer edge tinted black. Jacket design by Antiono Frasconi. Novel based on the slave societies of the West Indies in the 1750s. No markings.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st , 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 315 pages. An extraordinary chronicle of war and an occult story of love between a father and his son from one of Iraq's most celebrated contemporary writers. "Whenever he told lies, the birds would fly away. It had been that way since he was a child. Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen." So begins Bachtyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's rule and Iraq's Kurdish conflict. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 844 pages, green cloth covers with dark green design, lettering. Cover shows wear, light soil. Internally clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear and soiling to pictorial dust jacket, protected by clear mylar cover, else a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 463 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Purple gilt titles on spine. Small stains to top edge of boards. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy.