fiction

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w drawings by Dirk Zimmer. Set in Boston in 1636, a valuable pig escapes from Goody's sty and must be rescued by the determined lady. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 251 pages. A story of murder and family intrigue set in Ireland.

Hardcover. NY/Oxford UK, Routledge, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 190 pages. This book examines Gore Vidal's lifelong engagement with the ancient world. Incorporating material from his novels, essays, screenplays and plays, it argues that his interaction with antiquity was central to the way in which he viewed himself, his writing, and his world. Divided between the three primary subjects of his writing - sex, politics, and religion - this book traces the lengthy dialogue between Vidal and antiquity over the course of his sixty-year career. Broughall analyses Vidal's portrayals of the ancient past in novels such as Julian (1964), Creation (1981) and Live from Golgotha (1992). He also shows how classical literature inspired Vidal's other fiction, such as The City and the Pillar (1948), Myra Breckinridge (1968), and his Narratives of Empire (1967-2000) novels. Beyond his fiction, Broughall examines the ways in which antiquity influenced Vidal's careers as a playwright, an essayist and a satirist, and evaluates the influence of classical authors and their works upon him. Clean copy.

NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 404 pages. Acclaimed novel based on the life of botanic artist William Buelow Gould (1801-53). In this account, Gould is a white convict condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, Port Arthur, Tasmania, in 1828 and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer and forger, falls in love with a black woman and discovers too late that to love is not safe. The book's design features colour reproductions of Gould's original art work, and each chapter is printed in a different colour ink. The book has been awarded the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal, and the Australian Publisher's Association 2002 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Best Designed Book of the Year. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 277 pages. "An intimate, vivid, emotionally truthful, and often funny portrait of an educated and sexually voracious male in the second half of the twentieth century...Wonderfully engrossing." -- The New York Times Book Review. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 340 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages plus 16 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Scarce dust jacket is bright with light chipping. Several pages with light soiling to margins.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Like new and SIGNED BY MICHAELS at the 2003 Breadloaf Writer's Conference.

Boston, MA, Dana Estes & Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 155 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth spine over blue-gray paper-covered boards, designed by Amy Richards (author's daughter, unsigned binding) with Madonna lilies stamped in dark blue to upper cover and spine, title and author stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, rough cut edges, with frontispiece and three full-page black and white illustrations by Merrill. Name of previous owner on front flyleaf.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 370 pages. A tale of the grandsons of a Slovenian immigrant vividly portrayed with settings in the California coastal towns of San Francisco and San Pedro.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 223 pages. B&w illustrations by W.T. Mars. Dust jacket with edgewear, big chunk gone from rear panel. Excellent young adult mystery novel about two boys stranded on the moors who find a partly destroyed statue. It won a Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association for outstanding children's book of the year in 1965 in Britain.

Hardcover. Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, 68 b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH MOSHER AND MILLER on the half-title page. Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.

Hardcover. Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, 68 b&w photographs. Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Tan cloth, white spot to front cover. Dust jacket with acetate cover, minor wear to edges, light spotting, price-clipped. Tanning to front and back end pages. Stated first printing on copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages. Dust jacket with chipping, edgewear. Small chunk missing from top of spine. Brodart on dust jacket. A young girl's summer adventures on a small Vermont farm.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "Mrs. Nelson thinks her husband may be having an illicit affair- a run-of-the-mill situation as far as John Marshall Tanner, one-time lawyer turned investigator, is concerned. Except that the beautiful Mrs. Nelson doesn't want her husband's infidelity documented. The facts must be covered up to protect him from scandal and blackmail. With the first sentences of the book, you will know you are in the hands of a great Chandler fan and detective story craftsman." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt Rine hart winston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Grove Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, introduction by Stephen King and personal reminiscences by Forrest J. Ackerman, Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison and Peter Straub. This volume contains over 500 of the finest vintage film posters of the genres covering a span of nearly 75 years. In a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2014-04-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. How do we stay put on our planet and not float away into outer space? What makes things fall to the ground from high places? Chin introduces youngsters to the concept of gravity, presenting the information in highly understandable language and in captivating paintings that will delight young readers. Deceptively simple large print text describe how gravity affects all things on Earth as well as in outer space. Colorful and incredibly detailed watercolor landscapes and close-up illustrations keep readers' attention, and certain objects are repeated throughout the pages. Although Gravity is set up like a fictional text, the information necessary to understand the basics of gravity are present.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Erotic illustrations from the pulps with a chart in the back identifying the artists. Mild musty smell, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Dell, 1st pbk., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Dell #181. No marking, minor wear to covers, map on rear cover. Laminate peeling in rear. Pages light toning. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 207 pages, maroon boards with beige cloth spine, illustrated with 10 b&w drawings by Joseph Cellini. Light edgewear, chipping to dust jacket, price clipped. Otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Boston, Little Brown , reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages, b&w line illustrations. Red cloth with white and greenfloral decoration. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 278 pages, very clean and tight copy.The Great Fire was the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett "is brilliant and dazzling..."The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.