fiction

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 150 pages. Written with respect and humour, the boyhood trials of real life forever change the relationship between a son and his father. Author's first novel. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 150 pages. Written with respect and humour, the boyhood trials of real life forever change the relationship between a son and his father. Author's first novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 4th Ed., 1778, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, calf binding with covers detached, 262 pages, engraved frontispiece (depicting Millenium Hall). A 1762 novel by Sarah Scott. It was Scott?'s most significant novel, popular enough to go into four editions very early into its publication. Interest has revived in the 21st century among feminist literary scholars. Elizabeth Montague, Sarah Scott?s sisters, had become a leader of the bluestockings, a coterie of reform-minded individuals. Hall is a fictional embodiment of bluestockings ideals. The book was a best seller when it first appeared in 1762, running through four editions by 1778. Frontispiece detached but all text pages still firmly bound and clean. A candidate for rebinding.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. Anita Carbone was a good girl--and it bored her.That's why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his drug-dealing roommate--a man whose unnatural appetites led to murder. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Each page features a child introducing a dino, 25 in all, and describing its behavioral and physical characteristics. The child tells about him-/herself, too, with an argument for renaming the dinosaur after him/her. For example: "My favorite dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus Rex, the biggest, meanest, fiercest, most powerful meat eater ever found . . . when I have a bad day or lose my temper, my dad calls me RYAN-osaurus Rex!" Solid scientific information shares space with fictional youngsters in an ingenious way.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black, 120 pages, B&w illustrations by Bice. A Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Paper tanning, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black and white with a collie and her pup on the cover. 36 pages, 4 color plates by W.T. Smedley. Story told from a dog's perspective. Light fading to spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 337 pages. A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic fable and chronicle of the Chukchi people and a breathtaking adventure story. It is the story of John MacLellan, a young Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded among the native people of the arctic coast. It is the story of one Chukchi community that adopts a crippled stranger and teaches him to live as a "true human being." During the long winter, John comes to know his new companions--first as untutored primitives, then in the romantic light of noble savages and finally as a real people who share the best and worst of human traits with his own kind. Tragedy strikes, and a life is lost and re-given; a man rises to take the place of a boy; wounds are healed with compassion, honesty and love. And when difficult times loom ahead, it is his new family that John will fight to preserve. Rytkheu's empathetic voice guides us across the magnificent landscape of the North and reveals all the complexity and beauty of a vanishing world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Foul Play Press, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First published in the UK in 1972.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A clean copy of this Nobel Prize winning author's book of eleven short stories.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with a pastedown plate on front. illustrations by Morgan Dennis; foreword by Morris Frank. 65 pages; b&w plates and text illustrations throughout + 8 b&w photographic plates in rear. The story of a blind person and his "seeing eye" guide dog, written shortly after the first guide dog was brought to America from Switzerland. Spine label faded, mild soil to covers otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Poiseidon Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 586 pages. National Book Award winner. A satirically jaundiced view of modern law and justice chronicles the fortunes of Oscar Crease, a middle-aged college instructor and playwright, as he sues a Hollywood producer for pirating a play. Dust jacket unclipped, with minor edge wear. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 355 pages. Edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini. "Collecting short stories, essays, and the long narrativ poem "Fever and Chills," this Reader reveals the range of Elliott's talents and his seemingly effortless command of the written word. The smooth, realistic style of his short stories enhances the emotional resonance of such pieces as "Hymn of Angels," or contrasts with the caustic satire of others, such as the darkly Orwellian "The N.R.A.C.P." Clean copy.

NY, Oxford University Press. , 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 85 pages. Black & white illustrations by J. Paget-Fredericks. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips, small chunks gone from top & bottom of back cover.

Hardcover. London, George Bell, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with lettering and decoration in white. 8 color plates by M. V. Wheelhouse. 223 pages. Spine lettering faded, front bright.Top edge gilt, ribbon marker, clean tight copy. A lovely book of stories for children by this famed English author.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan & Co., 1883, Book: Good, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped in brown, 595 pages. Title page states 1883 with a blank copyright page. Most likely a reprint. Originally published in London in two volumes. This thought-provoking historical novel transports readers to the 18th century, where the American colonies hum with political tension and the winds of rebellion blow. Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, the author paints a vivid portrait of this tumultuous era through the interwoven lives of a diverse cast of characters. Amidst the turmoil, a young American woman finds herself torn between her love for a British officer and her loyalty to her country. As the lines between love and duty blur, the novel delves into the moral complexities of divided allegiances and the nature of patriotism. Front hinge cracked, shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green cloth with gilt. silver and black decoration to front board and spine. 238 pages profusely illustrated in b&w by various illustrators. Endpapers feature a map of the Island of Guernsey with the author's previous books opposite. Susan Coolidge is the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905) American author of children's books. Previous owner's name on blank prelim page, hinge cracked at front, binding a little shaken. Lettering on spine faded.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1941. The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. Mathieu, a leader of the French Resistance, leads one such cell, helping downed British airmen escape back to England. Alan Furst's suspenseful, fast-paced thriller captures this dangerous time as no one ever has before. He brings Paris and occupied France to life, along with courageous citizens who outmaneuver collaborators, informers, blackmailers, and spies, risking everything to fulfill perilous clandestine missions.

Hardcover. NY, M. Evans/Lippincott, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 59 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Mehlli Gobhai. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BECK on title page. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Brown top edge. Yellowing to dust jacket, chipping to top of spine; in Brodart. Essays about children's literature selected from 25 years of the 'Horn Book Magazine'; 1924 - 1958. Introduction by Bertha Mahony Miller. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Western Publishing , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color. A Whitman Tell-a-Tale Book. Clean, light edge wear to boards.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with pictorial design of girl on a horse stamped in white and black. 153 pages illustrated with 5 b&w plates by Lucius Hitchcock. Twain's historical fiction novel, partially written from the point of view of Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, Soldier Boy. This novel was first published in two installments in August and September 1906 in 'Harper's Magazine'. Twain's daughter Susy Clemens, who died in 1896 at age 24 of spinal meningitis, is understood to be the inspiration for lead character Cathy Alison. When Twain provided the story to Harper's, he included a photograph of Susy for the illustrator to use for Cathy. Spine is lightly faded, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, Second printing, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Light green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some light foxing to spine. Pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight.