fiction novels

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, reprint, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 439 pages. Mustard cloth with gilt and black decoration. Hinges cracked, spine cocked, shelfworn. Illustrated with a b&w frontispiece, text sketches throughout, no artist credit. Howard presents the story of a young girl living in the village of Plouvenec who works packing sardines. She falls in love with an artist while supplementing her income by modeling for artists in an artist colony.

NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like-new in colorful dust jacket. When the new owners of the bed and breakfast arrive, they soon realize they're not the only ones who are interested in the place. The guests start arriving, one by one, and soon they're all trying to solve the mystery of who's behind the haunting.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light soil. 253 pages. INSCRIBED BY CONRAD on the front fly leaf (to publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife). Hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1954, this is the story of 5 days on a sodden old menhadener with a white captain and an all black crew, searching the sea for their livelihood and battling the sea for their lives. Musty odor.

Hardcover. London, Theophilus Barrios, 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather binding with gilt border design and gilt initials "PPP" on upper and rear cover. All edges gilt. Volume published in London and sold in Paris. 460 pages plus a 4 page catalog of English books to be had at the Paris store. Includes a brief life of the author. Solid binding, text pages with some waviness, ink name on title page and dated 1829. Otherwise clean. Edgewear to cover edges, corners.

Philadelphia, John Winston , 1st illust., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages. 4 color and 10 B&W plates by Edwin J. Prittie. Green cloth with cover label illustrated.Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on the title page. Discussion of the really bad English and American crime novels of 20th century. Introduction by Ed McBain. Index, bibliography. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Joe DeVito. Life isn't always cheap south of the border--some lives are worth a million dollars. That's what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter's wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he'd saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. Like new.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY LETHEM on title page. Note signed by him laid in.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Brown cloth cover with gilt title. 318 pages. Previous owner inscription in front endpapers. Otherwise clean. B&w line plates by Frank Merrill.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book and SIGNED BY KRAMER on title page.

Hardcover. London, Whitefriars Press, 1st fascimile, circa late 1800, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 volumes of Surtees' novels, with illustrations by John Leech in all except Hawbuck Grange, which is illustrated by H. K. Browne & W. T. Maud (aka "Phiz"). Subscription edition of original first editions published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Gilt decorated covers on red cloth board with uncut pages. Light corner and edge wear on all volumes, minor stains on some volumes. Overall, clean and tight copies. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 667 pages. Red cloth, gilt titled spine. Limited to 1000 copies. Good slipcase. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in color by John Leech. Spine faded, slipcase shows edgewear, some fraying.

Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows minor wear. Hardbound.

Hardcover. New York, Carroll and Graf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 301 pages. Author Chris Bohjalians 2nd book. Some edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with light fading to spine. Internally very good. Marcia Middleton finds the body of her husband, Brian, hanging from the attic rafters of their new house in Deering, Vt. Relocated New Yorkers, the couple had moved only a month before--shortly after Brian had confessed to an adulterous affair. An autopsy reveals that the victim was dead before his body was hoisted. Once the police learn about Brian's indiscretion and his wife-beating, they label Marcia a murder suspect.

Softcover. NY, Avon, 1st pbk, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 199 pages. pictorial wrappers. Murder Mystery Monthly 38. The third Hannah Van Doren mystery. Light wear, mild soil.

Philadelphia PA, John C. Winston, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket with chipping, top of spine with 1" gone. 325 pages. 4 color and 8 b&w illustrations by Clara Burd. Edited by Ruth Ewing Hilpert.Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 111 pages. Minor edgewear to book bottom edges. Bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st Illustrated, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Illustrated with dootone drawings by Norman Price. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Red cloth binding with gold lettering, illustration on front cover and spine. Light edgewear to bottom edges.

Hardcover. London, Readers International, 1st UK, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, INSCRIBED BY DORFMAN on title page, 1st pub in 1973 in Argentina, translated by George Shivers.

Hardcover. New York, Little Brown, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to mylar-protected dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige buckram and boards covered in dark blue paper. Copy #794 of 1500 designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press and illustrated with 15 wash drawings in color by Charles Raymond. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Dickens' tenth novel, unusual from his others in its short length, and for not having scenes set in London. The satirical novel is instead set in the fictitious industrial mill-town Coketown Dickens wrote this serialised novel hoping to boost the sales of his periodical 'Household Words', which it indeed did. In a blue slipcase with one corner with a minor bump.

Hardcover. NY, Arbor House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, bright copy. Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket.