fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, New Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 383 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER AND TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 167 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, else like new. Overweight Esme Singer eats her way into adolescence--as her beautiful, divorced mother boozes and searches for the perfect man, and her irresponsible father promises the moon but delivers nothing. "Benedict's masterful second novel evokes the anxieties of childhood and adolescence with rare clarity,'' (Publisher's Weekly)

NY, Random House, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream. The unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. Hardcover. Yellow endpapers. Some agewear. Black cover boards, tan quarter cloth. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly tanned, some chipping with light agewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. Very good condition. Kosinski has written a modern parable, which is actually a suspense story. It is remarkable for its tension, wit, and irony. It is exciting, and it is memorable.

Hardcover. NY, Harpers & Brothers, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering on spine. No names, clean text. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. B&W illustrations by Leonard Vosburgh. In a lightly chipped dust jacket, price-clipped. A young adult novel set in the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 425 pages. Translated by Athena Bell. In the American sector of occupied Berlin, in 1945, a boy discovers the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blond, blue-eyed, she had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. The bodies of other young women are discovered. American and German authorities must work together if they are to stop the slaughter. Clean copy.

Softcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages. Originally published in 1975. The classic tale of a young man attempts to claim ownership of an old barn rumored to contain a hidden treasure. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C McClurg & Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 341 pages plus publisher's ads. Color frontispiece by N.C Wyeth. Beige ribbed cloth stamped with a 3-color decoration. Light shelf wear, overall very good, clean.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, gray cloth stamped in red, 197 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations by Ralph Ray. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Young adult mystery involving Jon and Judy's summer vacay set in Navajo country amongst Zuni and Hopi pueblos.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. Hes also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robins emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mothers brain With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and sons ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers' most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet? Powers' thirteenth novel, his first since winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Overstory. BEWILDERMENT was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sequel to The Chocolate War. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel for older children featuring a family of six children, living on Poseidon, one of the islands of Atlantis. Dust jacket art by Enrico Arno.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unusual work in that Gallico wrote this not as a sequel to his book THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE but rather as a sequel to the film version. The film featured some plot and character changes which Gallico incorporates into this novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Continues the adventures of fifteen-year-old Maura, her younger brother Patrick, a young stowaway, and some unusual characters as they sail from England to the New World in 1851.

Softcover. Clearwater FL, Jiffy Blueprint Co., 1st, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages, pale blue wrappers with black tape spine. Minor soil to covers. Clean internally.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, First Edition, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with embossed art nouveau design, light green ink & gilt titles. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Light foxing to a couple interior pages, and last illustration. Otherwise light toning to edges, clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 184 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. A novel of "wartime love and death" in the London of 1917. In the heroine Julia Ashton, Doolittle creates a vibrantly sensitive character through the evocation of her feelings, moods and memories. Previous bookseller's price sticker on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild /Doubleday, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a light stain to rear panel. Decorated endpapers, B/W Illustrations by the author, 215 pages. A tale about a young English farm girl and her love for her pet donkey, Biddy Christmas, and a little gray pony, Pip. Pencil name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, dust jacket illustration in color, b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Previous owner's inscription, dust jacket price-clipped otherwise clean, very good. The story of a farm family's Saint Bernard.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When their two-million-dollar Japanese smuggling assignment hits a snag, professional gunrunners Altmeyer and his wife, Rachel, risk nuclear disaster to complete their task. 248 pages, clean copy.