fiction

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 343 pages. Brown and white cloth cover, gilt design, very light foxing. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Slight foxing on edges, but inside is clean and unmarked, with b&w illustrations throughout. A nice, bright copy. Gathering tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Russia, Alaska, and the polar region, which were told and retold through months of long winter night, "Northern Tales", reflects a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, , 1st thus, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth, black and gilt design on spine, 709 pages. Title page with 1937 date and title in orange. Endpaper maps in color. (route map in front and map of United States in back). The 1st printing was a two-volume limited edition. No indication of other printing on copyright page. The story of Rogers' Rangers expedition against St. Francis, on the Maine/Quebec border, during the French and Indian Wars. Spine title faded with mild chipping. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GIFF on title page. Like new in dust jacket.

Woodstock VT, Countryman Press/Foul Play, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 220 pages. He is Jimmie John Hall, "free and white and 22". Her name is Betty Dienhardt, plain, friendless, and oppressed by a bleak home life. In each other, they find a chance for love and fulfillment. But they are doomed. For Jimmie John has already embarked on a killing spree on the backroads of the Southwest that will leave 14 innocent people dead. Clean, bright copy. First published in 1974 under the pseudonym Paul Kavanagh.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 131 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in color and black & white by Richard A. Holberg. Dust jacket worn, now protected by clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. Richmond, VA, Westvaco Corp, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover in slip case. Clean, tight copy. Limited edition. Minor wear on slip case. Yellow ribbon marker.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 205 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. US, Forge, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. 287 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Walker, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 260 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Debut novel.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated black and blue boards, 478 pages. This volume contains: Murphy/Watt/Mercier and Camier. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard -- just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe -- just maybe -- there's a chance it'll all get better. Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, red textured boards with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket present in fair to poor condition with chipping, tape repairs. Tommy Hambledon is back, and again he's in Germany, posing as a camera- toting tourist while trailing renascent Fascists. The investigation started in Cologne when a corpse was found hung out like a batch of wash from the bare girder of a ruined building. Bookplate on inside front cover, no markings.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 103 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark red cloth with gold gilt image to front board of Christopher Robin playing with his train and gold gilt image to back cover of Pooh Bear & Piglet. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to top of spine. Pictorial pink endpapers, front & back, showing Christopher Robin with Pooh and various other friends, are very nice. Pale blue dust jacket has darkening to spine and tiny chips to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 169 pages, light blue covers with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated first with all numbers present.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st thus, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 148 pages illutrated in b&w and 2-colors by Cooke. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st Thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Roberto Innocenti. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Dark red cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, pale yellow illustrated dust jacket. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, stiff binding, crisp and unmarked pages; a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 201 pages. A man's obsession with his late wife takes a new turn when he meets an uncompromising, manipulative playwright whose favored theme is death. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 339 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, T. Nelson and Sons, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped with black and gilt design, 235 pages, engraved frontispiece and numerous other plates and in-text drawings. Light shelfwear, previous owner's inscription, signatures on front endpapers. Otherwise clean, tight.