fiction novels

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 207 pages. Orinally published as a paperback by Lion Books in 1953. From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no matter what he did. And during a childhood spent at the mercy of a father whose schemes put him on the wrong side of the law as often as the right, and a grandfather who knew the bad parts of town like the back of his hand, young Jim learned sin better than any writer had before. From his rabble-rousing adolescencein the American Midwest, to wasted teenage years in the seedy underbelly of the hotel industry, to Thompson's chilling encounter with the real-life inspiration of THE KILLER INSIDE ME, BAD BOY offers a fascinating glimpse at the formative years of the man who would become one of the most famous authors of modern American Noir, in the autobiography-as-novel that follows the birth of the legend himself in the signature style Thompson made famous. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. New York, Pocket Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

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

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In the summer of 1939, prosperous members of the Jewish middle class flock to the resort town of Badenheim, oblivious of the ominous political and military events that will transform them into de facto prisoners in their familiar resort. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 251 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Reminder line on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, illustrated in color and translated by Jonathan Hammer. Illustrated by Jonathan Hammer. Introduced, edited, & annotated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. In this unconventional book, Jonathan Hammer offers a new translation of Hugo Ball's visionary novella Tenderenda the Fantast, along with his own unique Tenderenda-inspired images.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder, 1st , 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 79 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Merle Johnson. Paper on spine chipped. Light lettering on spine. Some wear to front cover. All pages clean and legible. Gutter cracked.

Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 195 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Hardcover. Front hinge tender. Top edge stained red.Small spot of discoloration at bottom right corner of front cover; small black spot at front cover hinge/spine edge. An early Max Brand spy adventure written under his Frost pseudonym.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Joseph A. Smith. Newly orphaned, young Annyrose escapes from the villainous O.O. Mary and falls under the protection of a proud and fearless Mexican bandit, regarded as the Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush. Annyrose wants only to search for her older brother who had run off to the gold diggings, but she finds herself galloping beside the celebrated outlaw in his own quest. He is hunting down the last of a band of "Yankee" riffraff who wronged him, an event that turned the innocent young Mexican into an avenging terror of the roads.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Joseph A. Smith. Newly orphaned, young Annyrose escapes from the villainous O.O. Mary and falls under the protection of a proud and fearless Mexican bandit, regarded as the Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush. Annyrose wants only to search for her older brother who had run off to the gold diggings, but she finds herself galloping beside the celebrated outlaw in his own quest. He is hunting down the last of a band of "Yankee" riffraff who wronged him, an event that turned the innocent young Mexican into an avenging terror of the roads.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. We return to District 8--the underbelly of Bangkok's underworld--where a dramatically mutilated dead body is found. It's bad: he was CIA. It gets worse: the murderer appears to be Chanya--a tough, sweet working girl who's the highest earner at The Old Man's Club, jointly owned by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves Al Qaeda and Thailand's porous southern border where, since 9/11, the CIA has been an obviously covert presence. But the truth will be harder to come by, and it will require Sonchai to find an ever-more-delicate balance between his ambition and his Buddhism, while running the gamut of Bangkok's drug dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, worse military, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart (Chanya!)--most of which he can handle. But even Sonchai is not prepared for what he discovers at the end of his investigation.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles & green embossed graphic to front, gilt titles to spine. Rear hinge cracked. Light toning throughout.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 254 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean and bright except for faded spine lettering.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 309 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics/Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Hardcover with slipcase. Illustrated with full color reproductions of classic Batman strips from 1943-1946. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 304 pages plus ads in rear. Some rubbing to spine and corners. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 176 pages. B&w illustrations by Paul Galdone. A young boy of the Louisiana Bayou wants to be hunter and fisherman like his father. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. SIGNED BY LEONARD ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers with silver titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. No wear to dust jacket or covers, spine stiff and tight, pages crisp and unmarked; a beautiful copy in great condition.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 324 pages. Stated: "First Edition - Published April 1937" - 2nd impression. Blue cloth cover. Fade to spine. Top edge stained red. Previous owners name on front endpaper. '0185' stamped at bottom of first page of Contents. Streaks of discoloration on some groups of pages.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages, green cloth covers with gilt lettering a little dulled on spine. First printing with March 1922 on copyright page and no Scribner colophon. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Otherwise tight, clean.