fiction novels

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush. The story of an America teenage girl who comes to visit her family's relatives in a Turkish village. Fourteen-year-old Perihan's journal reflects her growing maturity as she records her impressions of her Turkish friends and their fascinating way of life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allison and Busby, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Spring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the southern uplands of the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from the crime of London to investigate, and must contend with old enemy Superintendent Rory McTurk to uncover the criminals behind the disaster. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third installment to Downie's Roman Empire series--the second-century saga of a witty and courageous army surgeon, Gaius Ruso, and his smart and loyal lover, Tilla, a barbarian woman from Britannia--continues in gripping fashion. Ruso returns to his family home in southern Gaul, summoned by a forged letter pleading for his immediate return. Once Ruso and Tilla return, Ruso is thrust into a dangerous quagmire involving a missing ship, huge family debts and, before long, the murder of the family's principal creditor--a crafty phony named Severus--who is poisoned in Ruso's home. While Ruso and his family are quickly suspected of the murder, Ruso and Tilla's attempts to solve the crime are hampered by interfering family members, a lying politician, a greedy banker and a pair of too-eager investigators sent from Rome. Ruso and Tilla must also deal with prejudice, envy and a new religion, Christianity. The plotting is clever and suspenseful, with subtle clues and lots of action, while the setting and supporting cast are vividly drawn. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 3rd pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped with blue decoration, 427 pages. B&w drawings by Helene Carter. "The intrepid Swallows (explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker) and fearsome Amazon pirates (Nancy and Peggy Blackett) sail the high seas, outwitting a pirate and his cutthroat crew, sharks, and the ravenous creatures of Crab Island in search of buried treasure." Hinges tender, pencil notation on dedication page otherwise clean. Mild shelf wear.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 470 pages. An unfinished novel by the murdered Italian author and filmmaker focuses on Carlo, a left-wing Italian Catholic working for the state-controlled oil company, a man who becomes obsessed with satisfying his perverse, insatiable sexual passions. Small remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise a clean copy of this now scarce book.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black title on spine, 344 pages. This is a juvenile-young adult novel set in mid-19th century Rochester, New York, where Johnson himself grew up. It follows Phaeton Rogers, a spirited boy whose scientific experiments, pranks, and misadventures reflect the energetic curiosity of boyhood. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 246 pages illustrated in b&w by Jay Hyde Barnum. Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. First 20 pages have dog-ear crease to bottom corner. High school football adventures of four friends who break up when their school is closed and they're transferred to rival teams.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt & Co,, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Very nice copy in brodart cover.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Light fading to top otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 12th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 830 pages. Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethems words, wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him.This Library of America volume brings together four of Dicks most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary drug tycoon can transform himself into a godlike figure transcending even physical death.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), about a bounty hunter in search of escaped androids in a postapocalyptic society where status is measured by the possession of live animals and religious life is focused on a television personality, was the basis for the movie Blade Runner. Ubik (1969), with its future world of psychic espionage agents and cryonically frozen patients inhabiting an illusory half-life, pursues Dicks theme of simulated realities and false perceptions to ever more disturbing conclusions. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.

NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&w illustrations by Hildegard Woodward. Dust jacket with light soil, corner chipping. Young reader's story about a boy who makes a pair of skis so he can ski down the hill in back of his house. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green covers with gold and red decoration. 437 pages. Black & white illustrations and frontispiece with tissue-guard by Jessie McDermott. Spine a bit loose. Green covers with gold and red decoration. Wear to corners, spine.

Softcover. New York, Clarion, Ltd. Ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ltd to 244 signed (#176). SIGNED BY TREVOR AND ILLUSTRATOR HOGARTH. Color illustrations by Paul Hogarth. Cardboard covers. 20 pages. The story first appeared in the October 30, 1995 issue of The New Yorker.

Softcover. Chicago, IL, Century Publications, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Paperback. Century Mystery #27. Light soil and mild wrinkling to front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Ford's first book. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chips to corners. small tan stain to top corner (about 1/4" triangle). Unclipped.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 199 pages, illustrated in b&w by Michael Foreman. "Set in medieval France, the hero is - yes - a pig, a small but highly intelligent pig with a little boar blood lurking in his veins . . . When the feudal lords of Pitou decide with the farmers to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet (beloved of the farmer's daughter, Adele) who warns his cousin, the wild boar Grondin, of what is afoot . . . "

Hardcover. NY, J.B. Lippincott Company, 2nd pr., 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Mary Shepard. Moderate wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, The Century Company, 1st illustrated, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages. 12x 13". Illustrated with b&w drawings.by the Rhead brothers. Decoration on front cover in limited color of a man running away. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Small dent on rear cover edge. The cover is worn and slightly soiled and age-darkened but otherwise clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series based on her and Max's life story. But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you. Like new.

Hardcover. Boston/New York, Books Inc, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, brown boards stamped in black, 252 pages. Charming and unusual b&w drawings by Louise Beaujon. Dust jacket worn, tape repaired on reverse.

Hardcover. Boston , Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth stamped in red and gilt, 306 pages. Twelve b&w illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Frontispiece piece protected by tissue guard. Unusually bright, clean copy. Light cornerwear to cover.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. SIGNED BY DEAN on the half-title page. 246 pages, a adventure story featuring pirates by this Vermont author. Clean copy, no dust jacket.