fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. At the core of L.A. Requiem is Joe Pike, a former cop with a past as dark and foreboding as his demeanor. His only stable relationship is with his partner of twelve years, Elvis Cole, a talented and quick-witted PI with skeletons in his own past. When Pike's former lover is found dead at a reservoir in the Hollywood Hills, the duo is brought in by the woman's father to monitor the police investigation. But Pike's no stranger to the men and women in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division, at least one of whom has been harboring a long-buried desire for revenge. With a rich cast of characters reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's classic The Long Goodbye, L.A. Requiem is the apotheosis of Crais's writing career--a gripping novel that envelops Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets, and mortal passions that threatens to destroy their friendship, and leave one, or both, dead.

Hardcover. New York, Fred De Fau & Company, reprints, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, hardcovers. 810 pages total. B/w frontipieces with tissue guards. B/w illustrations throughout. Top edges gilt. Dark green cloth boards, gilt titles on spines, some light shelf wear. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Split at gutter of Introduction page in vol. 1, doesn't affect binding, no pages loose. Bindings good. Pages unmarked. Spines straight. The second of the three Valois romances, a continuation of Marguerite de Valois. Takes up the story three years later with Henry III seated, but not securely, on the throne.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's third novel, seven days in the life of a Manhattan door-to-door salesman who "embarks on a frantic odyssey through the peep shows, singles bars and porno shops of nighttime New York in seach of relief from his maddeining loneliness." Clean, bright copy.

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. New York, Authors & Newspapaer Association, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with 3-color decoration, 317 pages. 4 color plates by Arthur William Brown. Previous owner's signature on title page and front end paper. Gutter crack at title page.

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.

Softcover. NY, Avon, 1st pbk, 1950, Book: Good, Paperback, unpaginated, stapled binding, color wrappers, 5 3/4 X 7". Cover art uncredited. MMM #49. light wear, soil.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tom Shephard is the new homicide detective in swanky Laguna Beach, California, and he's come to town from L.A. after killing a boy in a justifiable homicide. But the rep and the psychological baggage has followed him to Laguna Beach. Shephard has barely found his desk when he's called to the scene of a particularly brutal homicide in which the victim has been doused in turpentine and set ablaze. Shortly thereafter, a second victim is dealt a similar fate, and Shephard finds himself drawn into a complex mystery involving sex, blackmail and murder that stretches back forty years and that also involves members of his own family. Paper tanning slightly. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Ballantine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages. SIGNED BY GOODMAN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, black spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Unmarked boards, beautiful dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages. Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before her graduation, in that sheltered wonderland, three lives were taken, all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that has stayed hidden in the depths of Heart Lake for more than two decades. Now Jane has returned to the school as a Latin teacher, recently separated and hoping to make a fresh start with her young daughter. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories. And young, troubled girls are beginning to die again-as piece by piece the shattering truth slowly floats to the surface. . . .

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 2nd pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in light blue cloth, 184 pages. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Illustrated endpapers. Soiled covers and endpapers. Spine and corners a bit bumped. Tale of young Lance Chapelle and his horse Cherry set in 1870s Vermont.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Pages browning, dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's small sticker on front fly leaf bottom edge.

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. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 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.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 285 pages, in light green cloth covers with dark green lettering. Some small holes along edge of spine, otherwise clean. With a bright color dust jacket with minor chipping, edgewear. Internally clean and crisp. A true collector's copy.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, Page and Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages, b&w illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Cream colored covers with illustrated label pasted on front. Top edge gilt , clean.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and yellowing to dust jacket edges. An otherwise tight copy. First printing of the author's first book, which won an Edgar as Best First Novel.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with stamped lettering on front and spine. Moderate edgewear to covers, and pages. Light soil on corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine faded. Top right page block has abrasion on corner. Top spine heavy fraying to fabric. Illustrated in b&w by Norman Price

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Lovell, Coryell & Co., 2nd pr., 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. 293 and 292 pages. 3/4 leather covers w/ gilt lettering and design on spine. Gilt top edges. Marbled end paper. Rough-cut pages. Light rubbing, edge wear to covers. Front hinge on Volume II slightly cracked. Else very clean, tight copies.

Softcover. Hollywood, CA, Saint Enterprises, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Chartered Mystery #25. Pencil notation on first page. Light soil and warping to spine. Digest size 5x7. Abrasion on rear wrapper.

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 227 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Minor edgewear, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1986, Hardcover, 372 pages, a classic adventure of the early American frontier. 14 color plates including title page and endpapers illustration by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.