fiction novels

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 292 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, hardcover, green cloth with black lettering. Stated Ninth Printing on copyright page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Edward Arnold, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, 177 pages. Hardcover. Top of front cover warped, cloth shows light soil on front. Spine darkened. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Gutter cracked at title page. Rear hinge has small tear.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, unclipped dust jacket, 154 pages. Novel for young readers about a boy who needs to asserts himself to his older, bossy brothers. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. So this girl walks into a bar...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She's been doing this for a while, and she's good at it. And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her.She starts writing down names. And now she's a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down. Crossing them off her list... Like new.

Hardcover. New York , Delacorte Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 386 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. White covers with grey band and silver lettering on spine. Dust jacket pristine. Comes with an acrylic cover for jacket.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nominated for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.-the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream-who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. Lovely copy. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages. Hardcover. Light toning throughout, some tanning to endpapers. Red cover boards with black titles to spine. Clean and unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, known as the Brothers Hildebrandt. They were American twin brothers who worked collaboratively as fantasy and science fiction artists for many years, produced illustrations for comic books, movie posters, children's books, posters, novels, calendars, advertisements, and trading cards. Light edgewear.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D338.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Ink notation on first page.

Hardcover. New York , Junior Guild/Lippincott, Book Club Ed., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages, color frontispiece and b&w illustrations by Dorothy Bayley. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Tight, bright copy with a very good dust jacket, light fading to blue lettering on spine. A juvenile mystery set in Newfoundland

NY, Putnam, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.Black & white illustrations by Charles Robinson. As the first Woman's Rights Convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, draws near, hired girl Josie Dexter, initially uninterested in the convention, takes an eventful steamboat ride on Seneca Lake.

Hardcover. New York, Harmony Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY BUSCH on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1996, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Author's fifth novel in which narrator Doyle Redmond, a crime novelist, returns to the Ozarks from California in a Volvo he stole from his estranged wife and reconnects with his roughneck heritage: gun-crazy grandpa and older brother, big-breasted gals, marijuana farms, and a 50-year-old blood feud with the infamous Dolly clan.

Hardcover. NY, Warner, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, has "Signed First Edition" sticker on front cover. Blue, marbled cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. An exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events--a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. When her husband, Ben, drags her to the States for a gourmet cooking competition, the nervous and pregnant Ellie Haskell encounters mystery and murder in the American Midwest.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to dust jacket edges, especially the spine. Covers show minimal wear. Light foxing to text block fore-edge.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white pictures by Huck Scarry.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear. Psuedo. of Julian Barnes.

Hardcover. Boston, Lamson Wolffe, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 126 pages, with illustrations by Henry Sandham throughout. Gilt top edge and titles. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's bookplate and pencil marking on front endpaper, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.