fiction novels

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Thus, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 138 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 7 full color plates by Hugh Thomson. Pages featuring plates are age darkened, with toning in some cases transferred onto bordering pages. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Red cloth covers gilt titles. Dust jacket worn, with chipping, paper missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 200 pages. Black & white illustrations by Helen Finger. Red top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Price clipped. Clear plastic protective cover. Quaint story of a little Bavarian town in medieval days.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 202 pages. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Summary: Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her step father is doing to her. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, illustrated in b&w by John Burningham. Book is bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Edition is not stated, no date on the title page, copyright page states 1964. Contains 111 numbered pages with an additional 3 unnumbered. 16 line dedication. All pages are very clean and the binding is tight. Top edge stained black, dust jacket has light edgewear. Price of $3.50 on the front flap. Would appear to be a second or third printing of the first edition.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 292 pages. Super clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 147 pages, illustrated with 12 color and 18 b&w plates by Arthur Rackham. Original red cloth cover with black design, a few small areas where red is flaked, leaving white. Illustrated endpapers. Rear end papers have some light foxing. All plates with tissue guards with red lettering. Dust jacket spine darkened but design and lettering still readable., no price on jacket flap. A tight, clean copy of this reprint. No date but would have to be after 1926.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 128 pages. Color frontis, black & white illustrations by Louise Roberts. Green cloth covers with red & black decorations, lettering. Light wear to spine bottom edge, corners.

Hardcover. London, HARVILL, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 233 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Small Maynard & Co., 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 287 pages, 2 color plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Maroon cloth with cream and gilt decoration. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Gook League of America, reprint, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Dust jacket chipped, worn.

NY, Oxford University Press, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt. Color frontis. and black & white illustrations by George Morrow. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and mild soil to covers. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 184 pages, a novel about youth gangs in Harlem. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Remainder stamp on bottom edge. Lieberman's fifth novel features Dr. Paul Konig, New York City Chief Medical Examiner, studying the grisly remains of two -- or is it three -- people pulled out of the East River even as he learns his daughter has been kidnapped and he is thrust into a situation beyond all his considerable experience.

Hardcover. New York, Arbor House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcver, 275 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 171 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with art by Charles Lilly.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 423 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy. With "humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" (The Times, London), Janice Galloway's Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. In her lifetime, Clara was a celebrated concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -- as well as mother of the eight Schumann children and caretaker of her husband through a series of crippling mental illnesses. In its luminous integrity the novel brings Clara Schumann to life as a woman of genius. Galloway is at once a meticulous researcher of her subjects' remarkable and highly dramatic artistic careers and a virtuoso storyteller whose imagination and empathy lead her to that place off limits to history and biography -- inside the human mind. Distilling the memories, poetry, and musical notes therein, she examines the ways artists divine patterns out of life's chaos. "Passion," writes Galloway of Clara's performance philosophy, "one might take for granted -- its control is the mechanism through which all else flows." Though music may have bent to Clara's will, love served her far more tragically. Dismissing the cliches of Great Art and rejecting the romantic conflation of Madness and Creativity, Clara boldly ventures that in a life marred by alienation and isolation, "Work alone endures."

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Light fade to spine. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY WELDON on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 403 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and light foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with gilt lettering and flower blossoms on front cover. 304 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. B&w illustrations by Jessie McDermot, frontis with tissue guard. Small price sticker to front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. Pencil marking to preliminary and half title page, some soiling to spine & board edges, and fraying to crown & heel. Red dyed top edge with sunfading. Toning throughout, fingerprint p. 61 and tears to p. 350. Otherwise clean inside. A worn copy that feels comfortable in your hands.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #61. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Edgewar creasing to map on back cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in blue, 294 pages. Endpapers art and b&w illustrations by Eva A. Watson. A story based on the formation of the Coat-Rolls. New England women were asked to make coats for their men fighting in the War of Independence. Clean copy.