fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. When 15-year-old Angeleno Shanny Adler comes to spend the summer on aged Aunt Adabelle's ranch in the boondocks of Idaho, she brings along a purple punk hair-do, a drum set, a collection of esoteric trivia and a standard YA protagonist's pressing need to "find herself." By the end of the book she has found not only herself (and turned out to be a Pretty, Talented, Caring and Generally Worthwhile Person) but also the love of talented, caring "superhunk" Thor. She also drives the local theatrical enterprise from failure to smashing success, inspires old Adabelle not to give up her ranch, resuscitates a newborn kitten and generally turns everything she touches to gold. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Honore Guilbeau, in rear, marbled covers with gilt title on leather spine, black slipcase. Minor corner bumps and light chip to spine edge, slipcase lightly cracked, overall, clean and tight.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCHINE on title-page. Clean, tIght copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. From the world-famous creator of PERRY MASON, Erle Stanley Gardner--at his death the best-selling American author of all time--comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder--and Donald hip-deep in danger when he poses as an ex-con to infiltrate a criminal gang. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever, and a fitting conclusion to Hard Case Crime's revival of this classic (and long-unavailable) detective series. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Avon/Bard, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A mesmerizing novel of deception and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt. John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and bottles of whiskey consumed in a mysterious cafe called L'Entre Deux Mondes, he recounts, in counterpoint to his doubts, the one story he has never told before, perhaps the only important one he will ever tell. North's chosen interlocutor-who could be his doppelganger-is transfixed by the revelations and becomes the narrator of North's tale.

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1st thus, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with gilt titles on spine very faded, 12 color plates by Edmund Dulac. Endpapers foxed, rear covers with discoloration, light wear to top and bottom of spine. No markings.

NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 209 pages. Life in prehistoric Europe is recreated with drama and suspense as Shiva is kidnapped by an elder and must face the Ordeal by Poison. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, bright copy with only minor wear to dust jacekt and covers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Hardcover. Boston, Gregg Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Part of the Gregg Press Science Fiction Series edited by David G. Hartwell and L. W. Currey. Features examples of storyboards from the film production, and black & white stills from the movie. No dust jacket as issued. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Cleveland, OH, World Publishing Co, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by Paul Galdone. Edgewear, rubbing to corners and spine. Edgewear, chipping, soiling, rubbing to dust jacket. Price clipped.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Very minor edge wear. Very minor spots on fore edge. Protective clear dust jacket cover. A very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 215 pages. John Tunis vividly imagines the drama of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkerque Sergeant Edward Williams of the Second Battalion was among the first British troops to land in France, just across the English Channel from his family in Dover, after the declaration of war in September of 1939. Battles have been few and far between since then, in what the Germans have been calling der Sitzkrieg--the sitting war. In May 1940, under the leadership of their new prime minister, Winston Churchill, the British are hoping to stem the tide of invasion along their southern border. But now, flanked to the east and west by German troops and cut off from the Allies further south, Sergeant Williams and his battalion must retreat to Dunkerque in the north, and escape by sea is their only hope. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY LOWRY on title-page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. Bos, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY HIJUELOS on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 254 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

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. To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...? Long before he became the award-winning creator of Matthew Scudder (A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES) and an MWA Grand Master, Lawrence Block penned this tough, unforgettable crime novel, his very first. But as he describes in a new afterword, the book wound up published only eight years later, under a different title and a fake name--and was then lost for half a century. Now appearing for the first time under Block's real name, with revisions by the author, SINNER MAN is revealed as a powerful work by a young novelist destined to become one of the giants of the mystery genre. Like new.

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. To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...? Long before he became the award-winning creator of Matthew Scudder (A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES) and an MWA Grand Master, Lawrence Block penned this tough, unforgettable crime novel, his very first. But as he describes in a new afterword, the book wound up published only eight years later, under a different title and a fake name--and was then lost for half a century. Now appearing for the first time under Block's real name, with revisions by the author, SINNER MAN is revealed as a powerful work by a young novelist destined to become one of the giants of the mystery genre. Like new.

London, Gardner Darton Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages plus publisher's ads. B&W illustrations by Gordon Browne, fold-out map. Binding a little shaken, still solid. Top edge gilt, residue to front end paper where bookplate was removed. Torquoise cloth covers with 3-color decoration.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Translated from the French by Gwen Marsh. 175 pages. Black & white illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Gift inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, TOR, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 252 pages.