fiction novels

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. Attractive copy of the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park. Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whose humor and identification with the absurd are mitigated only by his love for his family, friends, and, ultimately, knowledge itself. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Villard Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Covici, Friede, 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with title in silver on spine, minor rubbing to edges. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy of this scarce title. There's a distinct lack of glamour to this first Maigret mystery. In itself that's interesting as this is a story centered on an international con-man and an American investor in one of the finest hotels in Paris.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, unmarked, bright and tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #914. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock. Notation on first page.

Softcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st Proof, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Uncorrected proof. 198 pages. Spiral bound. Light edge wear to paper wrappers; front cover lightly faded and soiled. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, hardcover. Black cloth covers with red decoration. Small library stamp on title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Quartet, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Nicholson's 1st book in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Street Sleeper brings the road novel to England and into the 1980s. Ishmael, a renegede librarian, goes "on the road" in a customized Volkswagon Beetle which he names Enlightenment. He soon finds that the M62 is a poor substitute for Route 66.

Hardcover. NY, Ace Hardcover, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Remainder line bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Marcaulay, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light green cloth, b&w frontispiece.

Hardcover. NY, Trumpet Club, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 179 pages, b&w illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run. And because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself running well enough to join the school track team. Strider changes Leigh on the inside, too, as he finally begins to accept his parents' divorce and gets to know a redheaded girl he's been admiring.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Front flap of dust jacket creased, otherwise clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Front flap of dust jacket creased, otherwise clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, The Modern Library, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Three novels in one volume: Young Lonigan (201 pages); The Young Manhood Of Studs Lonigan (412 pages); Judgment Day (465 pages). Farrell wrote these three novels at a time of national despair. During the Great Depression, many of America's most gifted writers and artists aspired to create a single, powerful work of art that would fully expose the evils of capitalism and lead to a political and economic overhaul of the American system. Farrell chose to use his own personal knowledge of Irish-American life on the South Side of Chicago to create a portrait of an average American slowly destroyed by the "spiritual poverty" of his environment. Both Chicago and the Irish-American Roman Catholic Church of that era are described at length, and faulted. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 218 pages. Color frontis. and b&w illustrations by Addison Burbank. Light shelf ear, no markings.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover New in new dust jacket. 326 pages. Quarter bound in cloth over paper covered boards. First edition, second printing. SIGNED on the title page by the author. An exceptional copy of a classic.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 326 pages, "First American Edition" stated; number line complete 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Sequel to "The Golden Compass." DJ not clipped; $20.00 U.S. price showing. Square and appears unread.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 403 pages, translated from the French by Sandra Smith. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Toronto CA, McClelland & Stewart, 1st Canadian, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 312 pages. "An Englishman's home may be his castle, but to Sir Buckstone Abbott, Walsinford Hall was nothing but a blot on the landscape. With its glazed red bricks, its dome and minarets, it so jarred upon his sensitive soul that it was his avowed intention to unload the unsightly pile on the first prospective buyer. His chance came when the Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek expressed the opinion that the Hall was 'cute' and began toying with the idea of purchasing it." Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.