fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The wise-cracking private eye with a tough exterior and a soft heart returns in a mystery involving a crazed housewife, Cajun thug, and menacing, hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Random House, uncorr proof, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, uncorrected proof, 165 pages. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 399 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, publisher's uncorrected proof, color illustrated wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodd Mead & Co, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B/W illustrations by T.H. Robinson. Moderate rubbing and heavy chipping to spine edges, moderate edge wear to page block. Clean copy. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder spray to bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2nd pr., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy. Dust jacket price-clipped.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

NY, Penguin Press, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages. 1st American edition of the Nobel laureate's 1st book published in the US. This is a paperback original, near fine in black pictorial wraps with the pages typically age-toned. Waiting for the Barbarians, written during the apartheid regime in South Africa, examines and questions the legitimacy of colonialism through the eyes of its protagonist, an unnamed Magistrate who governs a province that borders lands inhabited by a population of so-called barbarians. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. The Jalna series consists of sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954, although each of the novels can also be enjoyed as an independent story. Chronologically this novel is the 12th of the series. It is 1939 in Jalna. As the title suggests, the story focuses on Wakefield. War looms on the horizon. Wakefield and Finch are in London. The reader is introduced to new characters, Molly Griffith, Paris Court, and Johnny the Bird. Dermot Court also appears in this book. Former owner's inscription/old ink price on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Copyright page states: "First Printing c". Dust jacket with 3" closed vertical tear at bottom left corner of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

NJ, Bradbury Press, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 118 pages, in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.A coming of age story set on Anzac Day in Deakin Beach, Australia.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright jacket, 264 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, McClure Phillips & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 294 pages, 32 b&w illustrations by Karl Moseley, publisher's ads in rear (indicating first state). Beige cloth with 3-color design on front cover. Small water stain pages 173-176, rear hinge cracked, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, McClure Phillips & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 294 pages, 32 b&w illustrations by Karl Moseley. Second state, without ads in rear. Beige cloth with 3-color design on front cover. Rear hinge partially cracked, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green and Co, 3rd pr., 1933, Book: Good, Hardbound, 198 pages. Illustrated by Frank McIntosh. Translated from the Swedish by Siri Andrews. Color frontispiece. Illustrated endpapers. Purple cover with black lettering and decoration. Faded spine. Soiling to covers. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. NY, John Day Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket cover with a faded spine, unclipped. 217 pages, Young adult novel about migrant farm workers. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.

London , Thomas Nelson, 1st, n.d. (circa 1910), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 color plates , including title page (not credited), 332 pages plus publisher's ads. In 2-color and gilt decorated maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's inscription inside front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Stars son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his fathers jailer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 174 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frederick T. Chapman. Short tears to rear fly leaf. Previous owner's signature and stamp front endpaper. Light soil to covers. Green top edge. Corners bumped. Two boys' adventures trying to obtain the bicycles they dream about.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering, 125 pages, b&w illustrations by Harper Johnson. Children's story of a boy and his horse, living on a New Mexico ranch. When the Spanish cavalry needs horses for fighting the Indians, the horse is comandeered, and later captured by a Comanche warrior. Covers with light soil, clean internally, no markings.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages, illustrated in b&w. Dark ble cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, one plate loose, but intact, light foxing to top edge, else a very neat copy.