fiction novels

Hardcover. London, Sceptre, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Poseidon Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover with very nice dust jacket in brodart cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnams, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set in limp black leather covers with bright gilt decoration. 394, 411 pages. Hildegarde Ed. with ribbon markers.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. Clean copy. Ghote comes to a cold and drizzling London for a international conference, but becomes involved in investigating the disappearance of a radiant niece.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 153 pages. Dust jacket color illustration by Ruth Bowen. Clean copy.

Philadelphia , J. P. Lippincott, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small half inch chunk missing from rear dust jacketpanel at bottom edge, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor foxing on edges, otherwise, spotless and tight copy. The author's first novel - actually a novel within a novel - a "wryly funny and original novel for Everywoman who has ever asked herself "isn't there more to life than this?"

Softcover. London, Granta, 1st UK, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Free Press , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sherlock Holmes comes to South Central Los Angeles. Only he's black, never finished high school, and can't seem to hold on to a regular job. Instead Isaiah Quintabe- or IQ, as he is known - spends his time and uses his formidable intelligence to help others. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay. This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. The first book by this Japanese-American writer who grew up in the same kind of neighborhood as IQ, this was nominated for the Edgar for best first novel, for the Anthony Award, selected as one of the best books of the year by the NY Times and more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The true first (UK). Paper tanning slightly at edges.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine lettering faded. Copy moderately loose, but intact. Moderate soil to covers and page block.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First novel by the noted cartoonist and children's picturebook artist. In a pictorial library binding and lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a small hole in rear panel.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putman's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket, 447 pages. B&w photos. Although he aspired to Princeton, Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff (aka Shaw) had to settle for local Brooklyn College, where he seems to have enjoyed football more than his studies. From his mid-20s, however, Shaw (1913-1984) was a highly regarded New Yorker short story writer ("The Girls in Their Summer Dresses") and left-wing playwright ( Bury the Dead ), and later became a successful Hollywood script writer and novelist ( The Young Lions ; Rich Man, Poor Man ). This sympathetic, objective biography, by a Vanity Fair contributing editor, convincingly shows how Shaw's career, character and fiction, influenced more by Hemingway's lifestyle than by his writing, were marked by incongruities. Far from abating with age, his romantic and alcoholic appetites overwhelmed him. Years of high living in Europe, surrounded by adoring friends, softened his self-judgment, and he took to writing "fluffy essays for swells." The New Yorker dropped him, and "serious" critics panned his novels. Shnayerson capably contrasts Shaw's inclinations and personality with his subject matter and literary output, and is especially astute at explaining the complications of being a commercially successful midcentury American writer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages, with b&w Illustrations by David Omar White. Minor rubbing and foxing on cover edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. A boy in Northern Iran leaves his family and grows up to become a guide for rich hunters. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st , 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light mauve cloth with a green, white and gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. 4 color plates by Howard Pyle. Front hinge crack, light soil, wear to covers, internally very good. A story set in 14th Century Venice.

Hardcover. New York , Albert & Charles Boni, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages, from the Pequod Uniform Edition. Melville's autograph has been cut out of an unknown document and pasted on the title page. This book came from the library of Alvah Bessie, one of the Hollywood 10 blacklisted in the 1950s. Another volume from this same set has Bessie's ownership signature (dated 1926) and is offered here with the title above. Pictures available. Books show light wear and gilt titles on spine have faded.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON DEDICATION PAGE. 217 pages. Covers have light soiling, wear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, reprint, unstated, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 564 pages, including glossary. Color plates by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Scarce in dust jacket. Dust jacket edgewear, small tear to top front cover. Light soiling to back dust jacket cover. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 325 pages plus publisher's ads, 5 b&w plates. Fully bound in forest green. Text and picture on front cover. Black and gilt decorated spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrilll, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with mild soil. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Gerald McCann. INSCRIBED BY CLAGETT on title page. Story of a boy who dreams of following in his father's footsteps & becoming an officer in the US Navy but when Jack's father is lost at sea Jack is forced into becoming an indentured servant.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages. With Illustrations by William Rainey, R. I. Minor spine edge and corner wear. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Decorated front cover. Clean pages and tight binding.