fiction novels

Softcover. Chicago/NY, Rand McNally, 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrapper, 367 pages. No. 57 in the Oriental Library. Chip to paper spine.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Watkins w/readers excerpt booklet laid-in. Tight copy.

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. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, like new in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages plus an illustrated catalog of the author's books in rear. Frontis with tissue guard plus b&w plates by Jessie McDermot. Susan Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Beginning in 1872, she wrote five children's novels about Katy and the fictional Carr family, with the family modeled after her own relations, and Katy based on the author herself. Red cloth with some discoloration, light soil. Overall, a tight, clean copy, good plus.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with brown stamped decoration, 288 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Dark gray endpapers, b&w illustrations. The 5th and last volume in the Katy Did Series. Light soil and shelf wear, white smudge to rear cover, previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages, hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, fictitious autobiography, very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

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. London, John Long, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,320 pages, blue cloth cobers with black and red design, gilt title on spine. Minor edge wear and rubbing, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. A scarce copy with very clean pages and tight binding.

London, W. Foulsham & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 224 pages Edited and 'slightly abridged' edition for the modern boy. Color frontis. Jacket illustration is of a pirate holding a torch up in the air with a sword in the other hand and many men behind him. No date, appears to be early 1950s. Wear to top of spine cloth. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 628 pages. Light orange boards, brown cloth spine with stamped gilt titles, dust jacket completely illustrated in color, with mylar protective covering, brown endpapers. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, very stiff binding; an exceptionally clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Those who dread the dentist's chair will crack a smile at this uproarious fourth and final volume in Babson's Perkins & Tate series. Here the public relations team is called in to cap the bad press that is sure to follow when a dentist who attends to celebrity smiles finds a top model dead in his chair. Perkins & Tate slog on valiantly in aid of a dental practice that has gone bonkers. A hilarious cast of characters on the premises includes an inventor of a new anesthetic, a mad former Army dentist who believes that both World Wars are yet to be won and who, accordingly, gives orders to all and sundry, a sadistic driller who aims for the neck, and a waiting-room full of celebrities brought together by faculty grins and personal designs on the dentist. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Uncorr. Proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Uncorrected Proof. Tight copy.

Hardcover. McLelland and Stewart, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering, 208 pages, b&w photo illustrations. Girl's adventure story set among the Eskimos of Arctic Canada. Features Ginnie, who drives her team of huskies as well as any man. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Saint Paul MN, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages. Red pictorial cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Light fading to spine and small scratch to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 173 pages, b&w illustrations by John Schoenherr. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with a green and black decoration to the front cover. 4 b&w plates by George Varian. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 123 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Polgreen. Previous owner's stamp front endpaper. Light soiling endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 126 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Phyllis Rowand. Red cloth cover. Child's name printed on front endpaper. Cover bumped at spine and corners. Clean copy. An imaginative dialogue between father and son interspersed in a story the father is creating about the two of them arriving in preColumbian America. Kind of an odd take on "Redskins" but an interesting book.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Decked foreedge. Teal fabric covered, Very clean inside and out. Review from back cover, "There's a cast of characters worthy of a modern-day Shakespeare; bathetic descriptions of using the lavatory that would have had Beckett smiling; and the gods' playful pursuit of women that could be lifted straight from Ovid's The Art of Love. Banville, already esteemed for the brilliance of his language, proves in this novel to have a mastery, too, of these many colliding universes."