Novels

Softcover. NY, Bloomsbury, Uncorr. proof , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Paperback proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. El Paso, TX, Sweet Earth Flying Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Penned by two of the most famous African American writers of the 1930s, this never-before-published coming-of-age story chronicles the adventures of a 12-year-old Mexican boy, Miguel Del Monte, who joins his uncle in herding wild broncos from northern Mexico to Los Angeles. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this historic tale follows Miguel as he embarks on this unexpected trip across the American Southwest desert, determined to prove himself brave and smart enough to deal with the anticipated hardships. Along with a close encounter with roving bandits and the dangerous forces of nature, Miguel has bittersweet interactions with people of diverse racial and cultural groups, learning important lessons along the way. Separated into concise episodes and reflecting the beauty of various peoples, this collection depicts the power of tolerance and multicultural inclusion.

Softcover. A. J. Cornell Publications , 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 189 pages. Cornell Woolrich, best known as the author of "Rear Window," is unsurpassed in his ability to create and sustain sheer suspense. In his tales of terror, ordinary people find themselves in the most extraordinary circumstances--and, as readers, we share their spine-tingling tension every step of the way. Collected here are four of his most nail-biting novellas: EYES THAT WATCH YOU: Greedy Vera Miller plots her husband's murder right under the nose of her mute, paralyzed mother-in-law. After all, the old lady won't be able to tell anyone about the crime. Or will she? THE NIGHT I DIED: Nice guy Ben Cook, goaded by his scheming common-law wife, fakes his own suicide and moves to another town--all to trick his life insurance company into making a large payout. No one en route or at the new address will recognize him, will they? YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAI": Ed Bliss's new bride, miffed by her husband's insults about her biscuits, promises that Ed will never have to see her again--and storms out! When she doesn't return within a few days, Ed begins to suspect foul play--but when he reports the crime to the police, he's the first one they suspect! MURDER ALWAYS GATHERS MOMENTUM: For his wife's sake, Dick Paine approaches a former employer for back wages he is owed--but things go terribly wrong and the old boss ends up dead. Now the guilt-ridden Paine, who'd never before committed a crime, is convinced that people will figure out what happened. As his paranoia gathers momentum, anyone he meets is at risk of becoming his next victim.

NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 404 pages. Acclaimed novel based on the life of botanic artist William Buelow Gould (1801-53). In this account, Gould is a white convict condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, Port Arthur, Tasmania, in 1828 and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer and forger, falls in love with a black woman and discovers too late that to love is not safe. The book's design features colour reproductions of Gould's original art work, and each chapter is printed in a different colour ink. The book has been awarded the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal, and the Australian Publisher's Association 2002 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Best Designed Book of the Year. Clean copy

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A coming of age novel that takes place in Kentucky during the late 1940s. Bright. clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PROSE on the title page. The au pair for the Porter family, Haitian-born Simone, becomes witness to the family's casual cruelty, observing the activities of Rosemary, a sculptor, her philandering husband, her mercurial friends, and her strange children. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unc;ipped dust jacket. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges readers deep into a bustling Indian eneighborhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy through the eyes of a child as he has his first perilous collisions with an unjust and complicated wider world. Young Jai drools outside sweet shops, watches too many reality police shows, and considers himself to be smarter than his friends Pari (though she gets the best grades) and Faiz (though Faiz has an actual job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants, and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit.But what begins as a game turns sinister as other children start disappearing from their neighborhood. Jai, Pari, and Faiz have to confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force, and rumors of soul-snatching djinns. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home, the lives of Jai and his friends will never be the same again. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Oneiric Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First novel by the author of I Cover the Waterfront. Harried businessman takes a year off to loaf on a houseboat. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover Limited edition (No. 1075 of 1500 copies). Signed by the illustrator on the Limitation Page. Quarter bound in publisher's brown leather over gilt embossed khaki boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt mystic maze decoration on covers. Illustrated with 16 full-page, full-color plates (including two double-page spreads) hand-colored by Frank Hudec, as well as in-text drawings, historiated initials, and head and tail-pieces by Robin Jacques. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Slipcase with light wear, soil. Book very good with a mild misty odor.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A massive novel illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner. John Gardner's final novel follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and perhaps going completely mad. During his personal descent, which he seems powerless to arrest, he somehow scrounges enough money together to buy a farmhouse in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, which seems to be haunted by the ghosts of an incestuous family. Mickelsson's farmhouse sanctuary was (it turns out) not only the residence of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, but the scene of a murder; the place is haunted. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America,, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light sticker residue to rear panel, 1096 pages. The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector's volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Maisie Danston, a rich, sexy senior at Dartmouth College, has everything. brains, beauty and a boyfriend. But Teddy Leskovitch becomes obsessed with her, spying on her at every opportunity until his overwhelming desire drives him to kidnap her in a wild, desperate attempt to prove his love. The author's first novel.

Hardcover. NY, Tor Publishing Group, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 492 pages. INSCRIBED BY SZPARA on the title page. K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Stars son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his fathers jailer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering, 454 pages. "This novel forecasts the advent of the world state. It includes Wells's most thorough indictment of the phenomenon of fascism." A strange disturbing book, published on the eve of WWII. It is in part an analysis of fascism and in part a utopian novel. The book is a biography of a character Rudolf 'Rud' Whitlow, who is born with such an aggressive temperament that he is referred to by his nurse as the 'Holy Terror' and the infant become the despair of his parents. Rud eventually gets involved in socialist activism and a group plotting world revolution.

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, 335 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Maroon cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. Later Works includes Black Boy (American Hunger) and The Outsider. Clean copy. Mild soil to slipcase.

Hardcover. NY, The New Press, 1st US, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 252 pages. While almost all of Duras's novels have been translated into English, her debut The Impudent Ones (Les Impudents) has been a glaring exception--until now. Fans of Duras will be thrilled to discover the germ of her bold, vital prose and signature blend of memoir and fiction in this intense and mournful story of the Taneran family, which introduces Duras's classic themes of familial conflict, illicit romance, and scandal in the sleepy suburbs and southwest provinces of France. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, Uncorr. Proof, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in yellow wrappers with some fading. Beginning when a dead Ray Williams arrives in Heaven, the novel unfolds as the deceased proceeds to tell his life story backwards. As dodgy and shiftless in the afterlife as he was on Earth, Ray finds himself in Heaven's popular Last Words discussion group, where, for dramatic effect, he lies about his final utterances. A series of flashbacks reveals Ray's defining moments, including his real last words and what they meant, in a funny, poignant narrative that moves with the clarity of a fable and the complexity of modern psychology. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright wraparound dust jacket. Ramona, written by Helen Hunt Jackson, is a timeless work of historical fiction that first captured hearts in 1884. Set against the rugged beauty of post-Mexican-American War California, this powerful novel weaves together romance, cultural heritage, and social justice in a narrative that resonates deeply with readers. We follow the life of a young woman of mixed Native American and European descent as she navigates the complexities of identity, love, and survival in a land fraught with change. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Everyman's Library, reprint, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 168 pages. Joseph Roth's 1924 tale of a one-legged street musician defying his fate in postwar Vienna. Andreas Pum, having lost his leg in World War I, is rewarded with a medal and a permit to support himself by playing a barrel organ in the streets of Vienna. At first the simpleminded veteran is entirely satisfied with his lot, and he even finds a voluptuous widow to marry. But then a public quarrel with a respectable citizen on a tram propels Andreas's life into a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses his beggar's permit, his new wife, and even his freedom, he is provoked into finally rejecting his blind faith in the benevolence of the powers that govern his life. Joseph Roth's remarkable novel deploys the haunting atmosphere and propulsive power of a dream to convey the bewilderment of an ordinary man as his world falls apart around him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 303 pages. INSCRIBED BY CLARKE on the title page. For young Miller Le Ray, life has become a search. A search for his dad, who may or may not have joined the army and gone to Iraq. A search for a notorious (and, unfortunately, deceased) writer, Frederick Exley, author of the "fictional memoir" A Fan's Notes, who may hold the key to bringing Miller's father back. But most of all, his is a search for truth. As Miller says, "Sometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff you've done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you haven't done." Brock Clarke takes his reader into a world that is both familiar and disorienting, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining. Told by Miller and Dr. Pahnee, both unreliable narrators, it becomes an exploration of the difference between what we believe to be real and what is in fact real. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with $5.95 on flap with the number 8021 underneath it, and the number 0369 on the bottom rear flap, indicating a true first edition jacket. Stated fifth printing June 1969. Light blue boards, gold and red titles on spine, gold facsimile signature on front board. There is tanning and light soil to the dust jacket. No markings. Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber's son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Reissue of Burke's long out-of-print experimental novel, originally published in 1931. With a new Foreword by Burke for this edition. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 468 pages. Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms Hector Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 171 pages. Firefly is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the world as a threatening conspiracy. Told in breathless and lyrical prose, the novel is a loving rendition of a long-lost home, a meditation on exile, and an allegory of Cuba's isolation in the world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new and SIGNED BY KALAM on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 363 pages. Unclipped dust jacket. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 450 pages. The Great Weaver from Kashmir is Laxness' first major novel, the book that propelled Icelandic literature into the modern world. Shortly after World War One, Steinn Ellidi, a young philosopher-poet dandy, leaves the physical and cultural confines of Iceland's shores for mainland Europe, seeking to become "the most perfect man on earth." His journey leads us through a wide range of moral, philosophical, religious, political, and social realms, from hedonism to socialism to aestheticism to Benedictine monasticism. Upon his return to Iceland, Steinn finds himself more conflicted than before, torn between love of the beauty and traditions of his homeland, longing and regret for his great adolescent love, Dilja, and his newfound monastic ideal, forcing him to make choices with fateful consequences. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Stone and Kimball, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Gilt decoration and title on front and back covers. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 340 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. A very nice copy in clear brodart cover. Light sunning to dj spine.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st, 1908 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with top-edge gilt. Gilt and 2-color cover decoration by Armstrong, color illustrations by H. Fenn. Condition is somewhat fragile, but clean and nice with some minor wear to the cover.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Silver gilt ornate decoration on front and spine. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Light soil on bottom spine, and light edgewear on edges. A period story set in the Okefenokee Swamp with illustrations by E.W. Kemble, including three images showing black people, and one scene of a dog fighting a cougar.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Imagine an American city in the near future, populated almost wholly by street dwellers, squatters in ruined buildings, scavengers for subsistence. Suicide clubs offer interesting ways to die, for a fee, but the rich have fled with their jewels, and those who are left survive on what little cash trade-in centers will give them for the day's pickings. This enthralling, dreamlike fable about a peculiarly recognizable society, now in the throes of entropy, focuses on the plight of a young woman, Anna Blume. Anna has memories of a gentler life, but comes to the city in a "charity ship" to hunt for her missing brother. She first finds shelter with a madman and his wife and later experiences a brief idyll with a writer, Samuel Farr.Together they live in the deteriorating splendor of the marbled public library. Promise is ultimately rekindled when the survivors consider taking to the road as magiciansan action implying that art and illusion can save. Auster, an accomplished stylist, creates a tone that deftly combines matter-of-factness and estrangement. The eerie quality is heightened by the device of a narrator who learns everything from Anna's journal. Light scratches to rear of dj. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 407 pages. A priest struggling with temptation moves back into his working-class childhood home in this "suspenseful, illuminating, and highly readable saga" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BEGLEY on the front fly leaf in the year of publication. This autobiographical Holocaust novel won the Hemingway/PEN Award in 1991. The French version (Une education polonaise) won the Prix Medicis etranger in 1992. Begley's debut novel. Clean, bright copy.

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, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled and worn dust jacket, 186 pages. The little world of a public school, with its grudges and rivalries, reaches out into the little world of the aged, as the Old Boys grimly battle over the post of President of the Association.

Hardcover. London, Citadel Press, 1st illust thus, 1948, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cream jacket decorated in black and green. With 12 black and white woodcuts by Helen Munro.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thirty years after leaving Eunola, Mississippi, to pursue her dreams of becoming a dancer, Leland Standard returns with her son, and a dinner party given in her honor brings to light the secrets, desires, and life stories of the guests. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, 300 pages plus publisher's ads. 4 b&w plates by George Avison. First published as Le Roi des Montagnes (1856) About's popular novel satirizes the famous Klephts of 19thC. Greece. His portrait of Hadj-Stavros owes something to the real life brigand of the mountains Christodoulos Hadji-Petros (whose charm was sufficient to attact Lady Jane Digby during her adventurous stay in Greece) Translated by Florence Crewe-Jones. Bookplate on inside front cover, spine gilt with light fading.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams. The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula. Clean, fresh copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrations in 2-colors by Frederick T. Chapman. This stirring tale of Iceland fishermen; of their expeditions to the cold and dangerous regions where the summers no longer have nights, and of their return to their firesides in Paimpol--is one of the great masterpieces of French literature. It is a gripping tale of adventure and romance, a colorful and exciting story of fearless men, and of their patient, courageous wives.

Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Uncommon post-apocalyptic novel set in the near future and "focussing on a few people brought into unnatural intimacy after an atomic bomb has been dropped on New York. Each of the characters is intended to be symbolic of forces let loose in the world by atomic fission. Chunks gone from edges of dj, spine faded. Interior of book is clean.

Hardcover. NY, William Faro, Inc., 1st thus, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. black cloth with title on spine label, 313 pages. A good+ copy of the first edition [1930 on the title page] of the William Faro pirated hard cover edition, lacking the dust-jacket. "Revised, 1930, by William Faro, Inc." on copyright page. No markings, edgewear to cloth covers, corners. mild wear to top of spine. Binding solid.

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.