fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 270 pages, very good in a rubbed dust jacket with light edgewear. Mailer's fourth novel and seventh book describes thirty-two hours in the life of college professor and war hero Stephen Rojack during a 1960s existential journey on Manhattan's East Side.

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in New York City, Mailer's first novel in 10 years explores the dark side of the American Dream over a 32-hour time period in the life of Stephen Richards Rojack--war hero/college professor/talk show host/husband--and murderer. Originally serialized in Esquire magazine in slightly different form in 1964, this is the First Edition in book form from 1965. The basis for a film starring Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh. Name on first blank page, otherwise a clean copy.

Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Harcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. This is the story of what happened to Ellen DeLay in Quillifarkeag, Maine. Quilli (to the locals) has a lot in common with the small towns that Stephen King so often writes about: there are strange characters with strange names (to some of us) who have lived in the area all their lives, as did their parents before them and their grandparents before that--you get the idea. The narrator tells us that his daughter is a killer and he wants to get the whole story down. He takes his time about it, but what we know from the get-go is that Ellen DeLay was gunned down by four female officers of the law who pumped two hundred rounds into her body. Ellen had been married to Joe for 25 years, but she left him after he accidentally locked her in the part of his truck where he kept his tools--for four days. Ellen thought that Joe was trying to kill her while Joe thought that Ellen had left him. In any case, this incident prompted Ellen to head for the north woods, where, over the years, she learned to dress hunters' kills and became a respected businesswoman. There were a few, especially kids, who thought she was just a crazy woman in the woods but, for the most part, Ellen was left alone. Over the course of 250 pages, the narrator carefully pieces together the details of what happened one afternoon at St. Antoine du Plupart and, just as importantly, what happened afterwards. Being from Maine, the narrator takes his time. He has other things to do and other stories to tell, but in the end every detail about what is truly an American outrage is told. G.K. Wuori is the author of Nude in Tub and has a wonderful gift for language and a heartfelt affection for the place about which he writes.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 383 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Scarce novel about the War of 1812.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The book presents contemporary art comics produced by 75 artists, along with some classic comic strips and other related fine art and historical materials. Brunetti arranges the book to reflect the creative process itself, connecting stories and art to each other in surprising ways: nonlinear, elliptical, sometimes whimsical, even poetic. He emphasizes continuity from piece to piece, weaving themes and motifs throughout the volume. As gorgeously produced as Brunetti's previous anthology of graphic fiction, this book does full justice to the creative work of Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Gary Panter, and the other prominent or emerging comic artists who are currently at work at the cutting edge of their medium.

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. Avon CT, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a glassine dust jacket, housed in a very good slipcase. Introduction by Clifton Fadiman, illustrated by Robert Shore with 12 full page images. Limited edition, copy 1370 of 2000, signed by Shore, printed by the Stinehour Press. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times best-selling author Charles Todd. Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated by the King. The next morning when Bess goes to collect Wilkins, he has vanished. Both the Army and the nursing service hold Bess negligent for losing the war hero, and there will be an inquiry. Then comes disturbing word from the Shropshire police, complicating the already difficult situation: Wilkins has been spotted, and he's killed a man. If Bess is to save her own reputation, she must find Wilkins and uncover the truth. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, F&F, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Her 1st novel. Dust jacket price clipped bottom. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 184 pages in color. Anais Nin, the author of works such as Delta of Venus and House of Incest, is the patron saint of taboo-breaking pop culture sexual iconoclasts. Not only is she an inspiration for contemporary figures such as Madonna, but her oeuvre, which encompasses erotica, autobiography, essays, short fiction, novels, and much more, has been adapted into film (Henry and June), television (Little Birds), and other media.The cartoonist Leonie Bischoff traces the life of the prolific writer in this lushly colored graphic novel. It begins with Nin struggling to reconcile the man she married (who had artistic aspirations) with the banker she finds herself living with in the Parisian suburbs. Soon, her obsession with June Miller leads to inspiration. Nin's life and art, the truth and fiction, are further intertwined as she recounts her many sexual liaisons including those with Henry Miller (whom she and her husband subsidize so he can write the controversial Tropic of Cancer), her psychoanalysts, and even her father. Although Bischoff's drawing is largely representational, she occasionally depicts Nin's sexual experiences in scenes as surreal as Nin's own written portrayal of them.

Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 129 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad, and by stretching the truth, finds herself in quite a predicament when the special "he" wants to meet her.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 119 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 2nd, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Fraying and heavy rubbing on blue cover boards, corners frayed and ligth worm damage to margins.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&W illust by John T. McCutcheon. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper.

Hardcover. London, Gryphon Books, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers. 152 pages, color frontispiece by Marcia Lane Foster. INSCRIBED BY BOLTON on title page. The improbable tale of an American half-Cree Indian soldiering in the highlands of Scotland. Scarce title by this author who was also known as Sister Mercedes. Ivy May Bolton was an Anglican nun and writer. She was the daughter of Reginald Pelham Bolton and Kate Alice, and the sister of the playwright Guy Bolton. She lived in England until she was fourteen, when the family came to the United States, settling in New York. She wrote 10 novels for young adults from 1923 until 1952.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages: (1) 400, (2) 383. Hardcovers. 2 VOLUME SET. International Limited Edition Set: #959 out of 1000 printed sets. All volumes: B/w illustrations/plates throughout, each with tissue guard, bound in green cloth (some fraying at top and bottom of spine), paste down title label on spine (some tanning and chipping to labels, but all are in good shape and legible). Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Tanning to pages and edges due to advanced age, a few small spots of soil or rubbing to covers. Beautiful collector's item over 120 years old.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Altogether original, at once searing and amusing, this darkly comic novel confronts Harold Klein, now in his infirm seventies, with a strange malady -- the loss of his "inner voice" -- and introduces him to the steamy world of Internet sex. Inexplicably bereft of the mental faculty that would under normal circumstances keep him from blurting out, uncensored, the first thought that pops into his head, art connoisseur Klein wanders one evening into a pornographic Web site, Angelica's Grotto. An ongoing on-line dialogue, totally without verbal inhibition on Klein's part, eventually brings him face-to-face with the brains behind the grotto, an academic sex researcher named Melissa Bottomley. Harold Klein's erotic odyssey takes him not only through unimagined erogenous zones but also into arcane corners of the art world, as he seeks to meet Melissa's need for funding and she his for sexual gratification. As Klein strives to reconcile new desires with old habits, author Russell Hoban compellingly explores the dark relations between art and pornography, acts virtual and real, culture and politics, revelation and privacy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NIXON on title page, also INSCRIBED on opposite page. Clean copy. Two people who can't live with each other or without each other. She wants to have children. He doesn't want to contribute to an already damaged-by-humans planet. This disagreement proceed a series of truly terrible events.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NIXON on title page, also INSCRIBED on opposite page.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED, dated on title-page by author. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Ata Books, 1st pbk, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 303 pages. A fictionalized account of the relationship between Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Ribeiro de Duarte, the fiery Brazilian girl who left her husband to fight beside Garibaldi in South America and Italy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, Ryerson Press, reprint, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a tape-repaired dust jacket, 326 pages. Bookplate on front fly leaf, several pages in front and rear with homilies written in ink. Interior pages clean and bright.