& fiction novellas novels

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. Beige cloth spine with red-colored lettering. Dust jacket with clear plastic cover. Binding slightly wrinkled at top. First edition of this large adventure novel by the author of the Dortmunder series of humorous crime stories.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sam's friends, Oscar and Fred Arm, identical twins, are of opposite opinions as to whether or not he should marry Claire, a wealthy young debutante, and work secretly to alter their wedding plans.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Co, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 326 pages, cloth bound, gilt lettering and illustrations embossed on front cover and spine. Circular stain on front cover, light wear to edges of cover, spine cocked, corners of some pages creased, previous owner's inscription to blank prelim page, red sticker residue to prelim page.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages. Orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge cosmetic stain. Slight wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy in protective brodart cover. Walker Percy (1916-1990) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was the oldest of three brothers in an established Southern family that contained both a Civil War hero and a U.S. senator. Acclaimed for his poetic style and moving depictions of the alienation of modern American culture, Percy was the bestselling author of six fiction titles--including the classic novel The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the National Book Award--and fifteen works of nonfiction.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with embossed design to cover, gilt printed & gilt titles to spine. Tape-recorded in Moghrebi and trans. by Paul Bowles. Tear to back dj cover. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1974, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 289 pages. Beige covers with gold lettering on spine. Dust jacket very clean. Comes with acrylic protective cover. Overall very good condition.

Softcover. New York, Harmony Books, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1989 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 470 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AMIS on title page. Small crease to top corner, otherwise Very good.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in the UK.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardocver with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HODGES on front fly leaf. B&w Illustrations by W.T. Mars.. Dust jacket price-clipped.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY WARNER on title-page. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. A homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle into the Highlands to recover stolen money. 279 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. llustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Dust jacket with light edgewear. The adventures of a ceramic mouse that magically comes to life.

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C McClurg & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers with light wear, fading. IIllustrated by Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong.

Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Baker's 1st book.

hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Peter Sis. A tale of Touch, a runaway orphan boy who seeks help from the ghost of a magician. The Great Chaffalo obliges the boy with a stallion with a golden mane and a hide as fine as China silk. But Touch discovers even this wonderful horse cannot take him beyond the reach of his troubles. A tale of innocence in a world of villainy, of things that are seen but are not what they seem -- a tale of mystery and wonder. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W.J. Watt & Co., 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Blue-gray cloth binding with black design on cover. Light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Warner Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Softcover. New York, Clarion, Ltd. Ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ltd to 244 signed (#176). SIGNED BY TREVOR AND ILLUSTRATOR HOGARTH. Color illustrations by Paul Hogarth. Cardboard covers. 20 pages. The story first appeared in the October 30, 1995 issue of The New Yorker.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SARTON on half-title page. light soil to rear panel of dust-jacket otherwise VG/VG.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This black, bleak comedy tells of parallel lives in Providence, R.I. The Dwyers are middle-class, settled, safe in their lives until the day that Adam, a lawyer, finds out he's going to die of leukemia. Skippy, Babe, and Lisa are young sociopaths on the lookout for fun and fortune. When the lives of these two "families" cross, no one survives without trauma. The result is a diverting gallery of grotesques and grotesqueries, a litany of sex, perversion, violence, crime, and corruption. Providence is a fairy tale with no Good Fairy. Virtue ensures no reward; neither merit nor normal precaution provides sufficient protection to the unfortunate Dwyers. This novel is breezy and entertaining, enjoyable even though it depicts a world that is chilling in the indifference it shows toward ordinary people's cares and concerns.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, INSCRIBED and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight.

Hardcover. London, Sceptre, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY KENEALLY on title page. Sticker residue front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped, else in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A really nice, new-looking, clean copy. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row Publishers, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 113 pages. It is December 1681, and the words of Mr. Baggot, the tithingman, terrify young William. William is living a strange double life. By day he is a printer's apprentice living in a white man's house. By night, he is Weetasket of the Narraganset tribe who must risk Baggot's wrath to search for his lost brother. Then comes the winter celebration of the Saturnalia -- the ancient Roman holiday on which masters and slaves trade roles. Will William's secret be revealed? And what dark deed of others will be brought to light on this fateful night? Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, A Nonpareil Book, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages. Three novellas filled with humor and insight by one of America's modern literary masters. In Searches & Seizures, Elkin tells the story of the criminal, the lovelorn, and the grieving, each searching desperately for fulfillment - while on the verge of receiving much more than they bargained for. Infused with Elkin's signature wit and richly drawn characters, "The Bailbondsman," "The Making of Ashenden," and "The Condominium" are the creations of a literary virtuoso at the pinnacle of his craft. Mild soil, no markings.