fiction

New York, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 144 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Patrick James Lynch. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. A great collection of folktales from England & Wales, filled with boggarts, hobgoblins & other creatures.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very nice, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages. Map and decorative sketches by the author. This is the story of Wulfgar, the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor, and of his nemesis, Scoble the trapper, in the seasons leading up to the pitiless winter of 1946. As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive in its portrayal of damaged humanity, it is both a portrait of place and a gripping story of survival. Uniquely straddling the worlds of animals and men, Brian Carter's A Black Fox Running is a lyrical, unforgiving and unforgettable. Written from the fox's point of view. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOOM on the half-title page. Some of the power of her fiction (Love Invents Us, etc.) comes from Bloom's mastery of the writing craft; more arises from the empathy for human frailty exhibited by this author, who also works as a psychotherapist. Here, eight stories shed insight on the healing properties of love, experienced through unexpected epiphanies, ardent sacrifices and impulsive acts of forgiveness.

New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 122 pages. Black & white chapter illustrations by Kate Kiesler. "Ehrlich ventures confidently into new terrain in her eloquent and affecting debut children's novel. [Her] prose, as pristine and spare as her snow-covered landscape, portrays the quiet drama of the changing seasons -- in both their consistency and unpredictability -- as well as a family attuned to nature's every nuance." --Publisher's Weekly, starred review. Clean copy

Hardcover. Keene NY, Ausable Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 264 pages. Miniature critical essays on contemporary poets and fiction writers. Originally written as introductions to public readings, these essays are unabashedly celebratory, a welcome relief from the usual critical fare. As a critic, Boyers has been praised by such literary giants as Harold Bloom and John Bayley. Authors covered: Joseph Brodsky, Carl Dennis, Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, Howard Nemerov, Robert Pinsky, Saul Bellow, Nicholas Delbanco, Bernard Malamud, Jay McInerney, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Sontag, and many others. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt, gilt faded. 165 pages, 20 Native American myths. Emdossed stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good. Uncommon title.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Reminiscent of the author's early fiction -- "Room Temperature" and "The Mezzanine." It features Emmett, a man in his forties with a wife, two children, a cat and a duck, who gets up most mornings between 4 and 5 a.m., lights a fire in the living room fireplace with a single match, and thinks about the ordinary things in his life in an extraordinary way. Clean copy.

London, Macmillan, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 124 pages. Light rubbing to spine. Dust jacket with light soiling, chipping. A writer's seclusion is disturbed when the two aging sisters he he's letting his room from adopt an orphan boy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 46 pages illustrated in color by Ronald Himler. Despite her grandfather's reassurances, Annie worries about the coming branding of her own pet calf, Doodle, and she is determined to stand by Doodle all the way. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. The Camp Fire Girls is a series of preteen fiction novels written by various authors from 1912 into the 1930s. Paper tanning, binding firm, pencil inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Woodstock NY, Ardis Publishers, REPRINT, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 496 pages. With an introduction by Susan Sontag. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Beech Tree Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price sticker on front inside of dj. Internally clean and tight with only light wear to cover boards.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 236 pages. Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence. Clean copy.

New York, Dodd Mead and Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Top edge gilt. Publisher's covers in green cloth with green and white floral decorations & gilt lettering. Five photogravure illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Both the cover design and page borders are by designer George Wharton Edwards.

Hardcover. Chicago, Monarch Book Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 166 pages. Sixteen color plates by Louis Betts. Yellow cloth cover with title and illustration on front. Spine very slightly darkened. Private library sticker on inner front cover, no other markings. First published by Herbert Stone in 1900, this edition undated but appears to be soon after as quality color plates appear to be from that printing. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of humorous verses about animals, friendly or otherwise. Additional poems by Lucy Gardner & Eugene Rudzewicz. Drawings by Lucy, Joel, Joan & John Gardner. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green with gilt lettering, 431 pages plus publisher's ads. Color frontis and 7 b&w plates by Irma Deremeaux. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Henry Augustus Shute (1856-1943) was an American lawyer, judge and writer, who was best known for his humorous stories of small-town New England life, particularly his series of Plupy books inspired by his boyhood in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Richard Coburn, the despised co-owner of the fashionable Avanti nightclub, is shot to death, his widow, sultry Dierdre Coburn, hires Dwyer to investigate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WINSPEAR on tipped in prelim page. Clean, like new. Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Rear cover with light discoloration. Clean copy.