fiction

Hardcover. Boston, Usher & Strickland, 1st, 1841, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, embossed brown cloth covers, gilt on spine. An autobiographical narrative with temperance leanings. Much on nautical life from the seaman's perspective: whaling, slave trade and daily life aboard a ship. Three page preface signed L.C. Scarce. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages. This book offers eleven essays on Fante's career, ranging from close thematic analysis of individual stories and novels to broadly informed assessments of Fante's life and art in the context of his times. Major areas explored in the book include Fante's treatment of the Italian-American experience; his relationship to other American writers of the 1930s and beyond; the deeply Catholic nature of Fante's fiction; his unique and still-seminal vision of Los Angeles; and his lifelong concern to render in fiction both the comedy and the horrors of the writing life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Colored decoration on front cover, light rubbing. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 513 pages. Hardcover. Light green boards with dark green and gold gilt decoration on front cover and spine. Some light chipping to edges and corners of boards. Previous owner's inscription dated "Xmas 1894". Pages lightly tanned with age, otherwise unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 860 pages. Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of its time. The fiction he published in The New Yorker (more than any other writer to this day) came to epitomize the kind of short story featured in that magazine, and his impeccable ear and skillful dialogue have influenced later writers such as Raymond Carver. Bringing together sixty stories written over four decades--the largest, most comprehensive collection of O'Hara's stories ever published--former New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath presents a fresh and arresting new perspective on one of American literature's master storytellers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Armchair Detective Library], 1st thus, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in 1968 as a paperback.

Softcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, Uncorr. Proof wraps, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers. Uncorrected proof. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 782 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Features black & white illustrations by Portia Rosenberg. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages with 24 publishers pages in rear. B&w frontispiece and 3 b&w illustrations by Harold Copping. Cover lightly soiled with minor rubbing and edgewear. Inscription by previous owner on front flyleaf. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 428 pages. "Published June 6, 1934 First and Second Printings before Publication" on copyright page. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. The first volume in Mann's great tetralogy, telling the story of the Biblical Joseph's rise as a statesman in Egypt, his conduct during the epic famine, and his restoration to his father Jacob. Bookplate on inside front cover, small notation on rear dj flap, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 435 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Short closed tear to dust jacket bottom edge, dust jacket top edge has light bumping and minor fading. Unmarked, a clean and tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #193. Chipping to spine edges. Moderate creasing to wrappers.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illust. by Leonard Weisgard in 3-colors. Light soil to dj, front flap clipped at bottom.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 83 pages. This slim novel concerns a family trying to fill the gaping void left by the loss of a mother. The author's clipped dialogue and meticulously pared-down descriptions convey a deceptive simplicity--there are deep, intricate rumblings beneath the surface calm of MacLachlan's words. When his mother walks out on 11-year-old Journey and his older sister, Cat, the boy refuses to believe she will not return. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt. 339 pages, b&w frontis. Bright copy with name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Minotaur, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean, like new. While most travel to Concord, Massachusetts to relive America's Revolutionary past, Harvard professor Sweeney St. George has come looking for a different sort of history. An expert on funerary art, she roams the local cemeteries, fascinated by the macabre carvings of a celebrated stonecutter and hero of the Revolution--a project that takes a strange turn when a man dressed in a uniform of 1775 is found.

Hardcover. Leipzig, Germany, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 338 pages, plus postscript in rear, GERMAN TEXT. Purple cloth cover with Art Deco motif. Light edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 83 pages, b&w illustrations by W. T. Smedley. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to cover corners. Small stains on rear cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. With b/w illustrations and a color jacket by John Schoenherr. A juvenile novel set in the Alaskan Arctic, about an Eskimo girl surviving in a wolf pack. Winner of the Newbery Medal. The first English printing.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 275 pages. A very clean, tight copy. An epic storyteller who deals in great vistas and vast distances. The author's second collection of three novelllas, including a continuation of the adventures of Brown Dog, "The Seven-Ounce Man."

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , proof wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an uncorrected proof in green wrappers, great condition. A collection of three novellas, one of which features Harrison"s memorable character, Brown Dog.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Tan cloth covers with maroon titles and illustrations on cover and spine. Dust jacket with darkening, three spots of staining on spine, light edge wear. Line of holes created by hole punch along right side of front inside dust jacket flap - from top to bottom. Dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Sauk City WI, Arkham House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. 394 pages. Limited to 1559 copies; the sixth Arkham House book, Introduction by R. H. Barlow. 14 weird stories, 11 from WEIRD TALES (from 1924 to 1933) and all but one set in the West Indies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy of the Nobel laureate's eighth collection of shorter fiction.