fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 285 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Unclipped dust jacket has slight rubbing, now protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Coming of age in a country reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Karel Roeder grapples with the conflicting forces in his life--the drumbeat of the fascist authority, and his girlfriend Leda, who tempts him into a world of forbidben thought.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY SHEPARD on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Faith Jaques. Library Edition. Story of Victorian England set in a family shop in the back streets of Manchester, England. Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future. Clean copy.

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. The most popular of Capp's hundreds of distinctive characters was the Shmoo. This lovable little creature loved mankind so much that it would sacrifice itself and turn into a ham steak, a gallon of milk or a dozen eggs: whatever its owner desired. Its whiskers made nice toothpicks and its eyes could be recycled as buttons. Most important, a Shmoo could reproduce faster than a rabbit. Thus, if you had one Shmoo, you were set. You didn't need to work at all. Thus did the apparent book for mankind become its curse and the powers that be decreed that all Shmoos must be exterminated. Capp's insightful morality tale was so popular that it spawned an unprecedented merchandising bonanza. Two introductions, by David Schreiner and by science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, are illustrated with various Shmoo toys manufactured. The large back cover photograph shows a selection of Shmoo merchandise in color from the Denis Kitchen collection. Also featured in this volume: Flying Sausages (parody of "Flying Saucers," a term first coined a few months earlier; Fearless Fosdick, Nightmare Alice, Salomey, Adam Lazonga, Moonbeam McSwine, Cousin Weak-Eyes and Marryin' Sam. See also our Shmoo Facts Sheet for some amazing statistics about this character's popularity.

NY, Morrow, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Ted Lewin. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A twelve year old boy tries to return the mountain lion he's raised from a cub to her native habitat in the Idaho mountains.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, 9th, 1937, 149 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rear end paper dry and starting to separate. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front pages. Light corner bumps. Illustrations by Lynd Ward.

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 3rd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a small European hotel in the late 1940s a bizarre group of characters, who all seem to be on the run from some past financial, personal or political horror, come together.

Hardcover. New York, Appleton, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 6 B&W illustrated plates. With a nice INSCRIPTION BY SEAWELL on preliminary page. New photograph of Seawell tipped-in. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Gilt decorated covers. A bright copy.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Harry Toothill. Bright dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st illust thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color label on front cover, 335 pages. Eight color plates by Reginald Birch. Corners lightly bumped. Small book shop sticker on inside back cover. Back cover soiled in places. Previous owner's inscription on reverse of frontispiece.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket and pictorial frontispiece. Color illustratioms by Reginald Birch. Light wear to edges, and light hinge crack. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf and bookplate on end paper.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering and black drawing on cover. 160 pages. Eight color plates by Marion Mildred Oldham. Spine a little faded, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. SIGNED BY MOSLEY ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers, red spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket. Covers unmarked, very slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages crisp and unmarked; a beautiful copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering. 210 pages plus publisher's ads, b&w illustrations, frontis with tissue guard. Penciled inscription and embossed stamp on prelim blank page, otherwise clean. Charming Victorian juvenile by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press , 1st thus, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with intricate gilt design and color paste-down illustration on front cover. This is the first modern edition of Little Women to feature the complete illustrations of Clara Miller Burd, originally executed in 1926. Burd's brilliant color plates and detailed drawings bring the world of the March family to life. An introduction by Alice A. Carter, an expert on Golden Age illustration, explores Burd's life and the work of early twentieth-century women illustrators.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Scribner, ARC, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Near fine in wrappers. 317 pages. Glossy paperback is Advance Reader's Copy. SIGNED BY NELSON. Her third novel.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 412 pages, 13 b&w illustrations by T. de Thulstrup. Mustard cloth with bright 3-color and gilt design.

Softcover. Arcadia Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 290 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Philadelphia, John Winston, 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages, color frontis, b&w drawings and end paper illustration by Hamilton Greene. A story of a young boy spending the summer logging in Seattle.

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, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. B&w illustrations by John Kaufmann. The adventures of a young Arctic seal told from his viewpoint. Clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, Dragon's Dream, 1st English transl., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brilliant color illustrations throughout. Superb very fine detailed art, in this Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, graphic novel masterpiece, with incredible color pictures. Measures 8.5" x 11". One of the great French Comic Artists, with some of his strips appearing in Pilotte magazine; He became best know in North America for his work in the pages of Heavy Metal magazine. Clean, sharp copy.