fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins Press, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BEGLEY on the front fly leaf in the year of publication. This autobiographical Holocaust novel won the Hemingway/PEN Award in 1991. The French version (Une education polonaise) won the Prix Medicis etranger in 1992. Begley's debut novel. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch , 1st UK, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt. Red pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. Dallas, TX, Baskerville, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light stain to top edge, not affecting pages. Dust jacket corner chips, edgewear, otherwise VG/VG. When Vanessa Clayton realizes she is being stalked, she and three college friends, Kate, Annie, and Oola, are determined to turn the tables on the stalker

Honesdale, PA, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages, Black & white illustrations by Christoher Zhong-Yun Zhn. Review copy. An intimate look at family and village life in southeastern China, approximately 50 years ago. Ying, 10, is raised by her beloved grandmother. Ah Pau is thrifty, wise, and firmly rooted in her culture's traditions and superstitions. She guides Ying and her cousins with a firm and loving hand. As in First Apple (Boyds Mills, 1994), in which the little girl was a year younger, Ying must raise an ambitious amount of money. This time, she must bargain with her mercenary cousin Kee, and deal with the class bully.

Hardcover. New York, Poseidon, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 309 pages. Clear brodart cover on dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge, minor wear to jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's debut novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages. As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.As the Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house. In an unapologetically severe story about four boys who victimize Karen Jerome and her family, Cormier once again explores the potential for malice in all of us. The teenagers leave the Jeromes' home in ruin; Karen is assaulted and subsequently hospitalized in a coma. Not for the squeamish, Cormier's novel doesn't mince words: "The vandals shit on the floors and pissed on the walls and trashed their way through the seven-room Cape Cod cottage." Like Robert Westall ( The Machine Gunners ; Blitzcat ), Cormier surpasses most other writers by the sheer force of his words. Much more than a pulp thriller, this compelling, richly textured novel is told from several points of view, including that of the vandals themselves. Cormier illuminates even the darkest characters with humanity, so that in the end, readers see the complicated fabric of life itself.

Hardcover. London, George Bell and Sons, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with lettering and decoration in white. 8 color plates by M. V. Wheelhouse. 315 pages plus publisher's ads. Spine lettering worn, front bright.Top edge gilt, ribbon marker, clean tight copy. Classic adventure novel for boys.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages, blue cloth stamped with white lettering and sailboat. Endpapers are illustrated map of the voyage of the Goblin showing how she went across and came back. Author's b&w drawings throughout. Part of the Swallows and Amazons series. Front hinge a little tender, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, price clipped, still bright. Covers have moderte rubbing and wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria. For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.

Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE by author. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly worn dust jacket. 240 pages, turquoise cloth covers, silver lettered spine. Red-violet endpapers, top outer edge tinted black. Jacket design by Antiono Frasconi. Novel based on the slave societies of the West Indies in the 1750s. No markings.

New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages, b&w illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. A ten-year-old Danish boy goes on a whaling hunt. Drawn from the author's life. Clean copy.

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 164 pages. When David's parents, who argue all the time, decide to take separate vacations, they agree to send him to his Grandma Ruthie's--whom he hardly knows--for a whole month! But the quiet town she lives in offers David the people, events, and ideas that help him realize what is best for his own future. Clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, Lippincott , 1st, 1977, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The summer after his high school graduation, Ted meets a young woman who helps him make some decisions about his immediate future. Remainder dot on bottom edge, o

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with art by Edward Gorey.

Hardcover. New York , Edward Clode, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 349 pages, green cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece illustration. First few pages loose. Small blue pen writing back paste-down. Previous owner's sticker front paste down. Partial wear on front paste-down from missing sticker. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 159 pages. Publisher's 'Library Edition' sticker across foot of spine panel. A tale of prehistoric conflict inspired by an archaeological discovery in Yorkshire. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Granta Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 270 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing to back. Authors first book.

Hardcover. NY, The Baker & Taylor Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt. 302 pages, top edge gilt. Nostalgic picture of a boy's childhood in the 1900s. School, Goin' fishin," baseball and the circus are all part of this story with line drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. Mild shelf wear, spine slightly cocked. Clean.