fiction novels

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 266 pages. Author's first book. Light wear to dust jacket, else a beautiful copy in protective mylar cover. Taking on a seemingly simple assignment to pinpoint the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential State House documents, private investigators Patrick and Angela uncover a ring of extortion, assassination, and child prostitution.

Hardcover. NY, J. F. Taylor & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 259 pages plus publisher's ads. Drawings by Florence Scovel Shinn. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Clean.

Softcover. NY, Bloomsbury , reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor edgewear and very faint soiled spot on top and fore edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of Eden Island and of Advance Biosystems, the shadowy corporation underwriting it. Like new.

NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, Mylar dust jacket cover. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .

NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.Remainder line to fore-edge. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 409 pages, a classic novel of the American Revolution. 14 color plates plus title page, 47 pen line drawings 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.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial label on front cover, 409 pages. 14 color plates, color title page and endpaper illustration and b&w pen drawings by N.C. Wyeth. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Ed., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color label on front cover. 14 color plates, pen drawings, endpapers design by N.C. Wyeth. Cover with some rubbing and scratches, overall very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 409 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket, pictorial paste-down on cover. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription on front fly leaf. Tight copy. Color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.

Hardcover. London, UK, W.H. Allen / Virgin Books, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 316 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Sag Harbor NY, Permanent Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEFILIPPI to fellow author Barry Estabrook on the title page. Fate-driven story of boyhood friendship and its unraveling. A nostalgic revisiting of childhood shenanigans during the 1950's and 60's in a tough section of Long Island called Duck Alley. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Haunted by the memory of the hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager, Lowell has been receiving calls from a stranger obsessed with learning the whole truth about Air France 64 badgering him for information about the flight she was also on as a child. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Linden Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tight, clean copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUNNE on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED AND DATED BY DAVIDSON on the half-title page. Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless threats. Determined to take control, Goldy moves her business to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club. Soon she's preparing decadent dinners and posh society picnics--and enjoying the favors of Philip Miller, a handsome local shrink, and Tom Schulz, her more-than-friendly neighborhood cop. Until, that is, the dishy doctor drives his BMW into an oncoming bus. Convinced that Philip's bizarre death was no accident, Goldy begins to sift through the dead doc's unpalatable secrets. But this case is seasoned with unexpected danger and even more unexpected revelations--the kind that could get a caterer killed. Clean copy

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Maroon cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. Arnold Rampersad wrote the notes for this volume. Includes: Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom's Children, and Native Son. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, First Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover. White boards with copper titles to spine. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, TOR Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 378 pages. The concluding book of the "Homecoming" series. High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from the who followed Nafai or Elemak. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, TOR Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 350 pages. The children of Wetchik are ready to board the starship Basilica and embark on their journey from the planet Harmony back to the origin of humanity: Earth. However, the rivalry between Nafai and Elemak promises the journey will be anything but peaceful. Each faction already has hidden plans to prematurely awaken from the long hibernation, to have the upper hand when the landing occurs. The author's fourth book of the Homecoming Saga, a fictionalization of the first few hundred years recorded in the Book of Mormon. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "A tour de force of black humor, Easeful Death pits a "dead" man against his double-dealing, back-stabbing family and fans in an offbeat, ironic game of subterfuge." Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archaeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site--and plunder it. But can a five-man team of smugglers and thieves uncover what the centuries have hidden? And even if they find it, can they escape with it...and with their lives? Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line to bottom edge.

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some of the most beautiful visions of 1950s science fiction from artists Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Harvey Kurtzman, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen & others. From 1952 writer Ray Bradbury's stories were adapted & several are featured here. Other science fiction writers were also sampled without their knowledge. 4 volume slipcased set. Published originally by William M. Gaines (1950-53). Black and white reproductions of the comics with color reproductions of the covers. Books and slipcase clean, very good.