fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, David McKay , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black. 158 pages, illustrations and text in brown. Dust flap taped to inside front cover. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 349 pages. Rear dj lists to The Young Pitcher. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. These are the stories that catapulted Superman into the spotlight as one of the world's premier heroes of fiction. These volumes feature his earliest adventures in Action Comics when the full extent of his powers was still developing and his foes were often bank robbers and crooked politicians. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. British barrister and district coroner Julian Whyte finds his peaceful, uneventful life jeopardized by the return of his older brother, Raymond, an expatriate communist intellectual, and his new German wife, Kristina, in a suspenseful tale of brotherhood, guilt, betrayal, and death. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury Publishing , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 360 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows usual wear- now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil spot on bottom of page block. Dust jacket is protected in plastic, but has light abrasion to paper near bottom spine front. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 296 pages. Illustrated by Clifford W. Ashley. Soiling to endpapers, edges, cover. Pink top edge. Blue cloth cover. Spine worn, cocked. Edgewear. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page and Co., reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with spine label, top edge gilt. A volume from Disraeli's collected works, a reprint of the 1845 edition. Two b&w illustrations by Byam Shaw. Sybil is both an upper class romance and a political manifesto set against the backdrop of the Chartist movement (1838-1857). The novel's romantic plot is secondary to the political message, which calls for a restoration of national unity by means of reinstating royal authority and paternalistic government. As its subtitle indicates, Sybil exposes British society's bitter division of the rich and the poor during the "hungry forties." Disraeli portrayed both the physical and moral degradation of working people with gritty realism, relying on accounts from the Blue Books (reports of parliamentary commissions set up to examine social conditions) and his own eyewitness observations of manufacturing towns in the North. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. While staying with her eccentric aunt and uncle on the foggy California coast, T.J. finds herself involved in an unusual adventure when she helps the ghost of a nineteenth-century stowaway find a ring that will help free him to his future. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, stamped in gray and black, 208 pages. In his two earlier novels, "The Sea of Grass" and "The Trees," Conrad Richter has made a solid contribution to the long shelf of Americana; in "Tacey Cromwell" he goes back into the Arizona Territory a half century ago, to find a protagonist in the hennaed sporting-house madam who gives the book its name. Like others of this celebrated sisterhood, Tacey yearns for a husband and social esteem. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 4th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 199 pages. A tale set in the 1950s hill country of Virginia. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high-security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits), and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The local press loves the story and they have collectively dubbed the burglar the Tag Man. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with green and gilt stamping. A story of love, murder and suicide, described by one critic as "atmospheric to the verge of mystical." The novel concerns a woman named Felicia Lissell, who travels to Rhodesia with her aunt, to visit the farm of Dick Cardross, but she doesn't suspect that "dangerous social complications awaited her in the gay English colony nearby." The author, born Lilian Julian Webb in London in 1862, was a resident of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1896. She achieved international recognition with the publication of her story collection "Virginia of the Rhodesians" in 1904, and went on to great success as the author of numerous novels. Owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, including glossary of Japanese terms. B&w drawings by William Hutchinson. Ex-library copy. Blue dust jacket with faded spine; small tear to top left front cover. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Izzi's first book, a mystery set in Chicago.

Hardcover. Garden City, New York , Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jscket, 295 pages, Illustrated in b&w by Erick Berry.

Softcover. New York, Green Dragon Books, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Paperback. Cover art by Hoffman. Light soil, wear and corner crease. First few pages separated from glued binding. Fragile.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 309 pages, plus two pages of publisher's advertisement in rear, dark green cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing on endpaper, spine lightly cocked, minor corner and edge wear. Binding cracked on front and rear fly leaf, but all pages intact. Overall, clean and tight copy with bright pages.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A gold Signed Cooy sticker is affixed to front. SIGNED BY BOYLE on a tipped-in page in front, T.C Boyle is an acclaimed author, winner of the Pen/Faulkner award and finalist for the National Book Award. Described as "both a suspenseful trip across America and a moving story about language, love and identity from one of America's most versatile and entertaining novelists" this story of a 33 year old deaf woman whose identity has been stolen is the closest thing to a thriller Boyle has written.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY ANTONYA NELSON ON TITLE PAGE. Beautiful copy. Minor wear to brodart protected dust jacket, else like new. Two men meet briefly in a hospital, where both are visiting their dying fathers. They speak again just a few months later, when one of them impulsively calls the other, a psychologist, and a friendship of sorts starts to form. After the psychologist leaves his wife a few weeks later, she begins to fall in love with his friend, creating a triangle that threatens to destroy all three and their families. The wife must decide between two very different men, whom she loves in very different ways. As the focus of the novel turns toward the woman in the middle, it becomes increasingly clear that whomever she chooses, the effect on the lives of everyone involved will be immeasurable.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 275 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Slight wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, David McKay, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 183 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor chipping to dust jacekt edges.