fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 388 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brick cloth covered boards with green printed titles to cover & spine. Light wear to edges. Light toning to pages throughout, light foxing to endpapers, tight binding, else clean.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., First Edition, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Tan cloth boards with black titles & horse decorative illustration to spine. Light scuff mark bottom rear edge. Green top edge. Toning throughout. Original dust jacket with moderate wear to edges, light toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Pages untrimmed. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 442 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, reprint, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 249 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn, w/ creases and pieces missing from edges of spine; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Sceptre, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY KENEALLY on title page. Sticker residue front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped, else in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound, 258 pages. Illustrated by Julian Brazelton. Foxing top edge. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping. Two small chunks missing from top and bottom of spine. Brodart on dust jacket. Pencil mark front cover. Spine sunned.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1983, Hardcover, 368 pages, a classic adventure of a shipwreck and survival. 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.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, 237 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Mild soil to edges, covers. Historical fiction for young adults based on the life of Roland, warrior of France, nephew of Emperor Charlemagne. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Scarce 1st edition. Tan decorated cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. 31 beautiful line drawings by Alice Barber (Stephens) who is not credited on the title page but whose signature can be seen on the plates. Binding slightly cocked but still very intact. Light rubbing to edges and spine.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with purple WRB and decorative design on cover, purple/red lettering on spine with green filigree. Suspense noirish novel. Night club singer marries man with a past and secrets. Back cover with faint staining otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 3rd pr., 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, red and gilt, 147 pages. Five plates printed in 3-colors by Adelaide Eberhart. Cover design signed "E", probably the same artist. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Rostnikov has been ordered to go on holiday to Yalta. While he is away, rumor has it that he will be demoted. He's so good at his job, he makes the bureaucrats look bad. However, not only do Rostnikov and his associates keep their jobs, they manage to solve a kidnapping, robbery, and murder in the process.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. Originally published by Lion Books as a paperback in 1954. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 205 pages. Black & white illustrations by Howard Simon. Review slip laid in. Residue from paper clip front endpaper. Top corners a bit bumped. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. US, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. In matching slipcase.

Hardcover. East Yorkshire UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout. In matching slipcase.

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in very worn, chipped dust jacket with tape repairs, 241 pages, frontispiece by Edward Shenton. Novel based on the historic 1780 Indian raid on Royalton, in the White River Valley of Vermont. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Escaping into the fantasy world of the movies, where fathers don't disappear, mothers have no secrets, and little brothers don't cry over missing stuffed animals, twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, while performing community service for a crime she didn't commit, is forced to face the reality of her life. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages. Green cloth covers, gilt design, some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing on a few pages, otherwise inside is clean, with b&w illustrations by A. B. Frost throughout. A nice copy.

hardcover. London, SelfMadeHero, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Color comic illustrations make up this graphic novel. Bottom corner bumps otherwise, bright, and lean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Red decorative staining to page block and black satin ribbon marker.

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration.Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. Clean, bright copy.