fiction novels

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st published in England in 1987.

Softcover. New York, Viking, uncor. proof, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Softcover with minor wear to wrappers. Signed on title page. Tight copy. Crease on front top right corner.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 206 pages. Exploring the nature of a new people created by Soviet communal society, this novel centers on a group of Soviet emigres living in a boarding house in Germany, each seeking to establish a niche in the West. Dripping venom, the narrator ranges in systematic fashion through the actions of the communist regime from 1917 to the present, excoriating Soviet history. Seen through the cold eye of the observer, the System is duplicitous, corrupt, inefficient and boring, when it is not simply maddening. This furious, outraged, highly theatrical monologue documenting the emergence of the New Man, Homo sovieticus, will seem a definitive portrait to those familiar with the ways of the Kremlin. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Ron Lesser. If you were small-time grifter Walter Harsh, recovering in a hospital with a broken arm, you'd listen to a proposition that could net you a cool $50,000 for impersonating the South American strongman you resemble. You'd pay attention when the dictator's sultry mistress started putting the moves on you. And in the dead of night, when no one was watching, you might just hatch a plot to get it all for yourself: the money, the girl, and the stash of stolen loot she's conspiring to spirit out of the country. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An English mystery Introducing Alison Hope and Nick Trevellyan. Rural Hop Valley plays host to a small group of well-drawn characters, most of whom gather at Hope's open house only to find themselves suspect in the bludgeon murder of Hope's cousin late that night. Clean copy.

NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 186 pages.

NY, Meredith Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Carol Jones, 149 pages. Story of a people living in a remote corner of Iceland. The author lived in the region and writes from first-hand experience. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1st US, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In the middle of the bustle of London's Soho, among the theaters and sex shops and pubs, there sits a building. It isn't par-ticularly assuming, but its location is prime, and Agatha Howard, a young millionaire with a fortune of mysterious provenance, has decided it's the perfect spot to build condos. First, though, she has to kick out all the tenants. And Precious and Tabitha, two of the women who live and work in a brothel housed in the building, are determined not to go quietly. A colorful assortment of other charac-ters also find themselves caught up in the fate of this property: Robert, a one-time member of a far-right group and enforcer for Agatha's father; Bastian, a rich and dissatisfied party boy who pines for an ex-girlfriend; Jackie, a policewoman intent on making London a safer place for all women; and Cheryl, one of the many homeless people who occupy the building's basement. As their lives converge, surpris-ing hidden connections emerge, shadowy pasts are uncovered, and the fight over the property boils over into a hot stew. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages. Translated by Richard Howard. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. A story of old New York in Peter Stuyvesant's time. Dust jacket with major chipping, wear.

Hardcover. New York , Little Brown and Co., 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, black cloth covers with red lettering. Nice, clean copy of the novel which the Hitchcock film "Spellbound" is based.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, like new in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AMIS on title page. With The House of Meetings, Martin Amis may finally have written the novel his critics thought would never come. By taming his signature (and polarizing) stylistic high-wire act, Amis has crafted a sober tale of love and cynicism against the grim curtain of Stalin's Russia. The book's anonymous narrator--a Red Army veteran and unapologetic war criminal--and his passive, poetic half-brother, Lev, become pinned in a politically dangerous love triangle with the exotic Zoya, though their tactics (and intentions) are as divergent as their personalities. Swept up in the wave of Stalin's paranoid purges, the brothers are sent independently to Norlag, a Siberian internment camp where their respective fates are cast through their contrasting reactions to the depravity of the prison. Zoya and Lev share a night in "The House of Meetings," a room provided for conjugal visits with the prisoners, and the events of that night reverberate through the decades, the details of the liaison remaining concealed until the story's devastating denouement.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, A novel of Indians in Hudson Valley. 191 pages, including bibliography, illustrated in B&W by Larry Toschik. Dust jacket faded at edges with edgewear and creases.

Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 254 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cloth covers with gilt titles. Pages are clean, unmarked. Dust jacket missing 2.25" of paper from bottom portion of spine, chipping and pieces missing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Previous owners name and date at top of front endpaper. Black cloth covers show standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , David White Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages, black & white illustrations by Paul Giovanopoulos. Spine faded, library binding with sticker, dust jacket price clipped, otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Investigating the mysterious death of the local librarian, Ellie Haskell is entranced by the arrival of romance cover model Karisma, whose muscle-bound fund-raiser is upended by second and third murders.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. His highly praised first novel (4th book).

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped in dark green, in a shelf-worn dust jacket. 208 pages, illustrated by Lyle Justis. Brief gift inscription and previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, The Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the 1991 Edgar Award-winning author of New Orleans Mourning comes a witty mystery featuring writer/sleuth Paul McDonald. When his burglar friend Booker "happens" on part of Mark Twain's original manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he wants Paul to help find its rightful owner. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Schuman, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 176 pages, illustrations by Astrid Walford. Endpaper map illustration. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages. Black & white illust. by William Donahey, "Teenie Weenies" comic creator. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips to top, bottom of spine. A novel about a rough and tumble boy, a real Dennis the Menace, who is reformed by the hired girl.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Canongate Books Ltd, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Very clean and tight copy.