fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran & Company, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green and white, 469 pages. Irish descendants of a horse thief sacrifice love and freedom for position and security in Victorian period. Woodcuts by Freda Bone. When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the Considines a leading Mellick family. In turn, his son Anthony builds a fine house in the country for his wife and children--most especially for his adored son Dennis. Little does he know that when Dennis grows up he will threaten the toil of generations with his love for a peasant girl. A stirring family saga of divided loyalties and individual freedom; of matches made and lost; and of the constraints of religion and family pride. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Novel written in poetic form (like her Newbery Medal winning "Out of the Dust"), and telling an historically accurate story in 11 voices. In 1924 Vermont, a small town falls under the influence of the Ku Klux Klan; two girls, Leanora Sutter and Esther Hirsh, one black and the other Jewish, are among those who are no longer welcome in their community. An intricately woven story of prejudice, poverty and hope, and ultimately of the beginning of understanding. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative cloth in a blue cardboard slipcase. 678 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. This novel tells the story of Molly Gibson as she moves from childhood to womanhood in a complex series of interwoven plots. The sphere of action is small, but the implications are wide and carry truths of universal significance. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #134. Cover art by Gerald GreggRear end paper unglued from hinge. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Covers slightly askew.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in color, black & white by Nelson Grofe. Retold by Martin from Child Christopher by William Morris. Gilt decorated cover with color label. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 337 pages, like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED -MORE LIKE INITIALLED - BY SMITH on the title page.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Mylar cover. Slight wear to dust jacket, else like new. Hailed by Time as an "extravagantly comic" novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America's South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum-pool shark On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a "woman named Drown." He moves in with her and just as quickly begins encountering her strange compatriots. Before he knows it, they're heading farther south together--to Florida--where the data that the dropout scientist is collecting from life's laboratory is about to get quite contradictory.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DOYLE on title-page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth stamped in white. Black & white illustrations by W.B. King. Bright. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Mylar protected pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new. A collection of three novellas, featuring: a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from Montana who smells like wheat.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, illustrated in b&w by Neill. Rust colored cloth with color plate on front cover. Some faint marking to front end paper illustrations, otherwise clean, tight copy. Musty odor.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where in 1910 they are the only blacks.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 221 pages, b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. A tale set in pre-WW1 England. A generous impulse prompts Pansy to change clothes with a girl from the workhouse, beginning a series of strange adventures which involve Pansy being mistaken for a workhouse child, being chased hither and thither, being locked in a butcher's cellar, and being forced to hide on top of a haystack at night terrified that she is being hunted down by dogs.

Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 522 pages (Vol. I) and 528 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 56 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. Frayed wear to spine tops (more so on Vol. 1). Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.

Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages (Vol. I) and 508 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 52 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. More serious chipping to top of spine on Vol. II, and frayed wear to top of spine on Vol. 1 Rear hinge of Vol. II is split about 3/4 of the way down, but cover is still attached. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WEAVER on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy. Tunis' World Series is Book #2 in his 8- book series on the Brooklyn Dodgers. Roy Tucker and his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates summon every ounce of their collective skill to fight for the greatest title in baseball -- World Series champs.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 2 novels in one. 246 pages. Slight rubbing to lower edge, slight wear to pictorial dust jacket, in protective, clear brodart cover. Overall a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, a classic adventure of the early Florida frontier., winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. 14 color plates and endpaper illustration by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket with a short scratch to front panel.

Hardcover. NY, Fawcett Columbine, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, McBride, Nast and Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Shelf wear on bottom edge on board. Light soil on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down and opposite title page.