fiction novels

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 247 pages plus publisher's ads. B&W illustrations in text and full-page plates with tissue guards. Green cloth with black and gilt design. Binding a little shaken but solid, light wear to cloth edges. Small tear to spine cloth. Scarce.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 17 black & white drawings by Bridgeman. Gilt lettering to covers with some spot fading to light blue cloth. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 467 pages. Lovely copy. Like new hardcover in a dust jacket. Employing a variety of techniques-unattributed dialogue, stories within stories, passages from term papers and a waitressing manual-Chavez's accomplished first novel weaves the interlocking histories of the Dosamantes clan and the fictional New Mexico town of Agua Oscura. But the author, a playwright, actress and story writer, seeks to be more than a compiler of earthy, colorful tales about love, marriage, death, trailer parks and pickup trucks. Here is an updated Pilgrim's Progress with a Chicana feminist twist: Chavez follows the spiritual journey of her narrator, Soveida Dosamantes, who grows from a shy fearful girl to become a vulnerable, obliging waitress and, finally, a forceful woman ready to make difficult choices. Her highly readable style effortlessly mixes Spanish and English in a way that won't jar the monolingual reader ("May [the Virgin Mary] spare you a drunken man... smelling of frijoles and beer. Dios mio el gas!"). And if there is an occasional excess of sentimentality, there is never a dull moment in this rich polyphonic novel.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st American Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 253 pages. Hardcover. Blue cover boards, pink title on spine, boards in excellent condition. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, wrapped in clear, plastic mylar for protection. Pages have some very light tanning, unmarked. "Sansom has coupled his storyteller's art with his incomparable and lucent style."

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black lettering, 231 pages. B&w illustrations by Erick Berry.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 372 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 372 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, & Co. , reprint, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beautifully decorated green cloth stamped in gilt. Teg, deckle edges. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Exterior clean and bright. Interior with stamping, marking to several pages, from a private library.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. Publisher's release and photo of author laid in. Foxing to top edge. Spine slightly cocked. Else a very clean, tight copy. The author's first work of fiction and his second book to be published (the first being a philosophical work published 1988 under the title "Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970"). Writing of this debut Novel in the New York Times, Anne Gotlieb stated "This is a strange and often wonderful hybrid -- an ebullient philosophical novel in the form of a folktale-cum-black girl's odyssey. It is a book bubbling like a conjure woman's kettle with African lore, preserved intact in the half-magical, half-demeaning world of Hatten County, Georgia."

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Price clipped from dust jacket, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Otto Penzler, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 273 pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Richard Kennedy, with copyright stamps (both US and Canada) on title page.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 261 pages. Black & white illustrations by Carl Moon with one color plate in front. Rough cut edge. Turquoise cloth covers. Markings, soiling, to covers. Corners bumped. Spine and edgewear. Spine fade. Yellow top edge. Illustrated front endpapers. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Also extra library card on back of color plate.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 4th pr., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages, black cloth covers with gold label on spine and front cover. Title page with 1929, copyright page has November 1929 as this printing, Scribner's seal present. Previous owner's 4-line pencil notation on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Softcover. New York, Avon Book Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Paperback. Murder Mystery Monthly #30. Moderate soil to wrappers. Creases to rear cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, 181 pages. B&w illustrations by Harve Stein. A young adult adventure set in the Canadian wilderness. Light chip to cloth on front cover, "Review Copy" stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Bantam Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first Edwina Crusoe, R.N., medical mystery at the venerable Chelsea Memorial Hospitalin New Haven, CT. The heated custody battle between two couples over the true parentage of 10-year-old Hallie Dietz takes an unexpected turn when, minutes after the remarkable results of a tissue match are in, the lab technician and a teenage volunteer are shot and the records disappear.

Hardcover. New York, Leypoldt & Holt, 1st US, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Green cloth with title and cover decoration in gilt. 1.5" pencil point width mark at center of front cover (may be removed?), otherwise covers show very light wear. Previous owners name in pencil on inside front cover dated Sept. 7th, 1867. 1st English translation by Eugene Schuyler, Ph. D. . Bazarov--a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man--has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov's outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place across all of nineteenth-century Russia. Pages are bright with light to moderate foxing throughout. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 248 pages. The author's third book which deals with the protagonist coming to terms with having gone to Sweden to avoid being drafted to go to Viet Nam while his younger brother goes and is killed there. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Light blue cloth boards with red lettering on spine. The author's notorious first novel. "An absorbing, passionate novel exploring totally new territory: the story of a highly sexual intellectual woman, a writer, and the craziness and the misery of the war between the mind and the body". Mild soil to rear of dj otherwise clean.