Softcover. New York, Harmony Books, proof, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. Uncorrected Proof. SIGNED on the title page by author.
Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, spotless and tight copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Tim Gabor. When Navy Lieutenant David Young came to in a hospital bed, his face was covered with bandages and the nurses were calling him by a stranger's name. But David's nightmare was only beginning. Because the man they believed him to be was suspected of treason--and had driven his wife to murder. Now David's got to make his way through a shadow world of suspicion and deception, of dirty deals and brutal crimes, and he needs to stay one step ahead of enemies whose identity he doesn't even know--since if he can't, his impersonation of a dead man is about to become a lot more realistic. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 92 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket illustrated and black & white frontispiece by Jerry Pickney. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Berkley Publishing / G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. First edition. Gilt title on spine. A bit of chipping to top of spine. Light wear to dust jacket and pages lightly yellowed due to age. Otherwise, clean inside and in good shape. Science fiction tale based 100,000 years in the future.
Hardcover. Nashville TN, Vanderbilt University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages. The first English translation of the last work of Gogol to be published during his lifetime. The only important nonfiction prose work of the Russian novelist, the*e thirty-two critical essays, written in the form of personal letters, define Gogol's views on religion, morality, and aesthetics and provide a key to the underlying motives and messages of his earlier fiction, including Dead Souls and The Inspector General. Translated from the Russian by Jesse Zeldin.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1837, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, with a dust jacket that has light fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Unclipped. The final Colin Gray novel, set in the Indian Himalayas. Contains elements of mysticism and fantasy. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 273 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Two private investigators--Bill Smith and Lydia Chin--investigate a construction site plagued by thieves and a murder, in a case that leads them into the darkest depths of the underworld.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 192 pages. Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who, escaping his Russian captors, is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent, and, across the frontier, picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety? Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on covers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine wrinkled.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth over boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine. Color frontis and b&w plates by W. C. Trout. A story set in the Caucasus Mountains follows the adventures of a Georgian boy named Gogi and his sister Keto. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stalking a serial killer in Miami. Remainder line to top edge.
Hardcover. New York , Saturday Review Press, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. SIGNED BY ANTONYA NELSON ON TITLE PAGE. Beautiful copy. Minor wear to brodart protected dust jacket, else like new. Teacher Birdy Stone considers her time in Pinetop, New Mexico, an adventure as each night she gets high with her best friend, Jesus, until a widow asks her to edit her memoir, and Birdy is drawn into her mysterious world and embarks on a love affair with her son, who happens to be one of her students.
Softcover. Pomeroy OH, Carpenter Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, illustrated by David Lynas. Includes numerous black and white photos of attractive female nudes. Ribald adventure in the style of Henry Miller. Johnson's second novel to be published, though the third to be written, takes up the whole issue of who gets published and why. It takes as its main subject the uproarious literary politics of the late 60's, when the government first set up the National Endowment for the Arts, and fools and crooks and serious editors asked for money to keep small-scale literary operations afloat in a sea of conglomerate-owned houses and declining public taste. One of the best parts is the description of the first COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers) meeting. The two main characters, a truck driver named Gasserpod Peasporr Slocum, and his mentor, a small magazine editor, Ellis Schoenobatic, take us on a marvelous tour of the USA, into all the current scenes -- political, artistic, sexual -- and finally back to Sausalito and the girl they left behind. Clean copy.
NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth, gilt title on spine faded. 74 pages, translated from the German into English by Richard L. Simon. Stream of consciousness novella of pre-WWI Vienna. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 373 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KESSLER on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 309 pages. Minor cover and spine edge wear. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Walker & Co, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front-fly leaf. Clean, otherwise unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, G. Howard Watt, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped with black lettering and dog's profile. Color frontis by Charles Livingston Bull, 302 pages. Mystery novelist's scarce first book, chronicling the adventures of a German Shepherd living in the Canadian Northwest. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Light shelf wear.
Softcover. New York, Doubleday, uncorrected proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 291 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy with soil on rear inside wrapper.
Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED by NORMAN on title page. Remainder dot on bottom edge. Dust jacket price clipped
Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green, 1st US, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with dark green lettering and decoration, 151 pages. Four 2-color plates, endpapers design and b&w text drawings by James Reid. The story of a polar bear. Mild shelf wear.
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.
Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-235, 169, 149 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated black and blue boards, 522 pages. This volume contains: Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable and How It Is. Clean copy.
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.
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. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped in black. B&W drawings by James Houston. Ex-library copy with rubber stamp and small ink number on front end paper. Light soil, shelfwear. A coming-of-age tale for an eleven-year-old Eskimo boy of Baffin Island.
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. 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. NY, Library of America , 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 774 pages, this includes: Kindred, Fledgling, and the following storie:. Childfinder; Crossover; Near of Kin; Speech Sounds; Bloodchild; Amnesty; Book of Martha; The Evening and the Morning and the Night;--- Essays include: Lost Races of Science Fiction; Positive Obsession; Furor Scribendi; The Monophobic Response; Preface to Bloodchild and Other Stories --- Chronology; Notes on the Text; Notes Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Neely, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. One small stamp at lower left corner of inside front cover. Front hinge cracked but holding. Minor foxing to areas of cloth cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with very minor wear at very edges. A nice copy. The fourth novel by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Updike features Joey Robinson, an advertising consultant in Manhattan who describes the recent visit he, his second wife and his eleven-year-old stepson made to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black/green spine with gilt lettering; first Scribner's edition with 'A' to copyright page; no jacket. 913 pages, clean, tight copy. A fictionalized autobiography, using the name Eugene Gant for Wolfe's, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time the character attends Harvard University, moves to New York City and teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with the character Francis Starwick. Francis Starwick was based on Wolfe's friend, playwright Kenneth Raisbeck. The novel was published by Scribners and edited by Maxwell Perkins.The narrative of Of Time and the River closely follows the events of Wolfe's own life from 1920 to 1925.
Hardcover. New York, Linden Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Remainder stamp bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. This political thriller set in Ireland was a bestseller there and caused some apprehension in political circles.