fiction

Softcover. New York, New American Library of World Literature, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Paperback. Signet Book #G5794. Water stain to page block, moderate creasing along spine. Edge wear to paper wrappers.

Grand Rapids, The Fideler Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, endpapers map. Illustrated with black & white photographs.Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McClure Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red and white decoration on blue cloth covers, 206 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Light spine wear, rubbing to covers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 244 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated and designed by Don Bolognese and Elaine Raphael. Ex-library with light marking, residue to endpapers. An epistolary narrative of the musical prodigy's first year in Italy, composed from his detail-laden letters to his younger sister Nannerl. Although the letters themselves are fictional they are based on detailed research and on the hundreds of letters which Mozart and his father both wrote home during their trip. A map of the trip is also included as well as a little biography on some of the main characters.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Beautiful, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BARNES on blank prelim page. Autograph sticker on front of jacket, Small paper scar to rear panel.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss--making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief. SIGNED BY BARNES on a blank prelim page, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Six novellas, one written for this edition, about Brooklyn cop Abe Levine.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with embossed design to cover, gilt printed & gilt titles to spine. Tape-recorded in Moghrebi and trans. by Paul Bowles. Tear to back dj cover. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1974, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 289 pages. Beige covers with gold lettering on spine. Dust jacket very clean. Comes with acrylic protective cover. Overall very good condition.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 2nd pr., 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 624 pages, brown cloth with embossed black and gilt decoration on the front cover and spine. 300 b&w drawings. Second Issue with no tailpiece on p. 441 and "The St. Charles Hotel" on p. 443. Covers with light edgewear, discoloration/stain to rear cover. Rear hinge partially cracked. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Interior is bright and clean. Attractive copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Nice, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Very light edgewear to dust jacket spine and cover corners. Price-clipped. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 296 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 219 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Dust jacket with only minor wear, now protected with clear, plastic cover. Overall clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, still intact and wrapped in protective brodart. Cover boards decorated with same image as dust jacket. Covers have a little soil a top and age wear. Clean inside and in great shape for its age.

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 157 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, gray laminate dust jacket with color illustration, dark gray endpapers. Clean dust jacket and covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very neat, copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 285 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Unclipped dust jacket has slight rubbing, now protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Coming of age in a country reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Karel Roeder grapples with the conflicting forces in his life--the drumbeat of the fascist authority, and his girlfriend Leda, who tempts him into a world of forbidben thought.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY SHEPARD on title page.

Hardcover. London, Atlantic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ORFORD and dated 2009 on title page. When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town's Seapoint promenade, journalist and part-time police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to re-visit memories of the brutal rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that bind Cape Town's crime rings. Is her investigation into human trafficking linked to the murders or is the killer just playing a sick game with her? Like Clockwork is a dark and compelling crime story which exposes the underbelly of porn and prostitution in today's South Africa.

Softcover. Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED BY ORFORD and dated 2009 on half-title page. When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town's Seapoint promenade, journalist and part-time police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to re-visit memories of the brutal rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that bind Cape Town's crime rings. Is her investigation into human trafficking linked to the murders or is the killer just playing a sick game with her? Like Clockwork is a dark and compelling crime story which exposes the underbelly of porn and prostitution in today's South Africa.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Faith Jaques. Library Edition. Story of Victorian England set in a family shop in the back streets of Manchester, England. Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future. Clean copy.