Hardcover. NY, Paris Review Editions/Doubleday, 1st, 1969, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 284 pages. The first of only two published novels by this Kansas-born author (1930-2008), a ribald satire that became a small-scale literary cause celebre after an excerpt published in The Paris Review in 1967 ignited a somewhat bizarre censorship attempt in the Long Island town of South Farmingdale, N.Y.; in the course of the kerfuffle, TPR editor George Plimpton interceded to speak out against the censorship, and subsequently agreed to published the full novel under the Paris Review Editions imprint. Better known as a poet and essayist, Wiebe enjoyed a long teaching career at the University of Cincinnati; at least one critic has declared his work to be in the same darkly comic literary vein as that of Laurence Sterne, Franz Kafka, William S. Burroughs and Flannery O'Connor. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, signed copy with only minor wear to cover edges. A tight copy. Front cover has diecut with "signed first edition" sticker on front.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages, stated 5th printing. Dust jacket unclipped with light tanning. ($5.95 on front flap; 0369 on back flap). INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY VONNEGUT on the half-title page. Appears to inscribed by Vonnegut to a third party; "Earle F. Hiscock/ May 27, 1969 from RCH & Lynn SH/ Kurt Vonnegut Jr." Related newspaper clippings laid in at front.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Historical novel for young adults about a slave doctor in the West Indies in the 1680s. Originally published in the Netherlands in 1965. Dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.
Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, Uncorrected proof, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages, b&w drawings by Karen Usborne, INSCRIBED BY WILSON to Irving and Joyce (Adler) on the title page and dated August 1970. Wilson has also added 3 titles to the list of his previously published books on the opposite page. Joyce Adler wrote several books on Caribbean literature and Harris. She has marked up this book in pencil and pen with underlining and marginal notes. This edition published before the hardcover printing. Peach color wrappers faded..
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages, with drawings by Karen Usborne throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 151 pages. Small name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages. By "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed to Lora, an incessant talker who dreams of having a fluffy tail. We also read of Natasha, who searches Leningrad and her memory for her lost love; of Dmitry Ilich's elaborate seduction of Olga Mikhailovna; and more. In the tradition of such writers as Gogol and Chekhov, Tatyana Tolstaya transforms ordinary lives into something magical and strange. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Francis X. Loughlin is an aging police detective haunted by a twenty-year-old homicide involving a young female doctor. A man named Julian Vega was put away for that crime, possibly without sufficient evidence, when he was seventeen. As Blauner's novel opens, Vega has just been released from prison, on a technicality, when Loughlin is called to investigate a crime that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the earlier murder. Though the book sometimes takes the easy way out (the climactic twist feels both generic and arbitrary), it is elevated by Blauner's surefooted characterization of Julian. Newly free, struggling to find his way, dependent on the (somewhat tenuous) kindness of strangers, he is both sympathetic and tough; his portrait has a complexity that few authors could achieve. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, 1st US, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 266 pages. Black & white and color frontispiece illustrated by C. B. Falls. Front hinge cracked. Soiling to covers. Edgewear. Corners bumped. Faded pink top edge. Spine faded.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers, 317 pages. Corner of first page of book torn. Rubbing to extremities.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 317 pages, yellow cloth with brown lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. An attractive copy.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TILE PAGE. Book and dust jacket show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Headline Book Publishing, London, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 533 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, supplemented with an interview of the author, a short story by the author, and discussion questions. Very slight corner and edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with two small closed tears. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, also INSCRIBED by him on blank prelim page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY , Charles Scribner's Sons, 4th Pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and brown stamping. Illustrated in b&w by James. Previous owner's inscription opposite half-title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt titles on spine, color illustrated on cover pastedown, 263 pages, 6 color and 8 b&w plates by Will James. Previous owner's name on front endpapers. Otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and yellowing dust jacket. Tromp Kramer, Africaner police detective, and Mickey Zondi, Bantu police sergeant, in Trekkersburg, South Africa, are featured in this fourth detective novel by McClure. Exotic dancer Eve?'s sensual act features a five-foot royal python. When she is discovered in her dressing room dead of strangulation, her dancing partner turns out to be the murder weapon.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Patrick Faricy. Whether it's a Middle East oil crisis in the 1970s or the London Blitz during WWII, world events have a way of breeding trouble on the home front, too. That's how Toby Rinaldi, son of a U.N. Ambassador, wound up kidnapped on his way to a California amusement park, and how Robby Burnes, orphaned son of British nobility, wound up snatched on the snowy streets of New York City. But as Robby's famous namesake taught us, the best laid plans don't always work out as intended. Especially not when you'e a kidnapper in the hands of Gregory Mcdonald. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages in an unclipped dust jacket. Remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise, clean and tight copy. The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals, Buddy has decided to murder his wife and marry his mistress, Laverne, a robust blonde who cooks his favorite meal of fried pork chops, fried potatoes, and fried apples while wearing a short pink apron over black-lace step-ins and brassiere, long-gartered silk stockings, and platform shoes. The only problem is how to arrange the crime.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR ON TITLE-PAGE. Minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The story of the Ill-fated Donner Party and the ordeal of being stuck in the Sierras through winter in the 1840's. The late author lived in the house once occupied by Patty Reed, the Donner party survivor whose family is the subject of the book.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, 2nd pr., 1961 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Light tape repair on dust jacket and light tanning to pages, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 181 pages. First appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker. The traditional tale retold. In a series of short chapters the captious heroine is obliquely revealed as a woman regularly pleasured in a shower cubicle by the seven dwarves for whom she performs 'horsewifely' duties; the prince is a fop, and the stepmother is almost an incidental presence in relation to the potently amoral Hogo (one of several 'introduced' characters to the fable). Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered--Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling "cat skinners" of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to tame the American West. And the story that unfolds, in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Oakley Hall, is a lyrical outpouring of hunger and grief, of jealousy and corruption, of raw sexual yearning and the tragedy of the destroyed lives it leaves in its wake. Unpublished for more than half a century, SO MANY DOORS is Hall's masterpiece, an excoriating vision of human nature at its most brutal, and one of the most powerful books you will ever read. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered--Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling "cat skinners" of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to tame the American West. And the story that unfolds, in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Oakley Hall, is a lyrical outpouring of hunger and grief, of jealousy and corruption, of raw sexual yearning and the tragedy of the destroyed lives it leaves in its wake. Unpublished for more than half a century, SO MANY DOORS is Hall's masterpiece, an excoriating vision of human nature at its most brutal, and one of the most powerful books you will ever read. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. He'd been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, barely scraping by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man's life can always get worse--as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singer only to find her dead...and 16 ounces of pure heroin missing. On the run from the law, desperate to prove his innocence, Ray also faces another foe, merciless and unforgiving: his fierce and growing craving for a fix. Ed McBain was one of the most popular mystery writers of all time, creator of the 87th Precinct series and recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. SO NUDE, SO DEAD was his very first crime novel--and this is its first appearance in print in more than half a century. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line to bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A young, female university student, is found murdered. The signs point to sexual molestation, a probable rape. Bert, retired now and ailing after an operation, falls under police suspicion. He knew the girl, befriended her even, but did he kill her?
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it--but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet's working for the other, and to the dead man's beautiful sister, who has flown in from Las Vegas to avenge her brother's murder. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY RUSSO on the title page. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool. Russo, who won the Pulitzer Prize for literature for "Empire Falls", has added this third novel to his stories about life in Bath, New York. It's been about 30 years first novel, "Nobodys fool" that turned into a movie starring Paul Newman and Jessica Tandy (in her final performance) and so a number of the characters are now dead, but their presence echoes through the minds of their children and friends who are now the central characters in "Everybody's Fool." Russo masterfully tells a story about a single weekend in a town that has been consumed by its bigger and more robust town to the north effectively erasing it from maps. His characters are fully developed and by the time we finish the book we know them all well. And we like most of them and even relate to some of them. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1t, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 166 pages. Story of two cousins & their mothers, one of whom has run away. Dust jacket illustration by James McMullan.
Softcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This signed first edition of author and journalist Sid Smith's novel 'Something Like A House' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, following a British soldier who deserts to China during the Korean War and stays there some 35 years, bringing up a little girl who later becomes a victim of experimental biological warfare. Despite being set in China, Smith had never traveled there before writing the novel, the background gleaned from extensive research at the British Library amongst other places. An exciting novel set in a China almost unknown to the outside world, a chilling account of an army deserter living through a Cultural Revolution. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. Promotional postcard laid in. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. First printing of the fourth novel in the Thursday Next bibliomystery series. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 3rd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket that has light edgewear. Illustrated with b&w drawings by William Stobbs. 248 pages transl. from German by Isabel and Florence McHugh. Clean copy. Against the dramatic background of hardship and adventure of his fourth voyage of discover to the West Indies the author has set the enigmatic character of Columbus himself, and the moving story of his son Fernan's friendship with the Red Indian boy Tahaka. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 3rd Printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 633 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 359 pages. minor shelf-wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Three years ago, detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever--and left a woman he loved dead. Now Blake is back, to investigate the apparent suicide of Dorothy Louise Burke, a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets Blake uncovers could blow the lid off New York City's sex trade...if they don't kill him first. Richard Aleas' first novel, LITTLE GIRL LOST, was among the most celebrated crime novels of the year, receiving nominations for both the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Shamus Award. But nothing in John Blake's first case could prepare you for the shocking conclusion of his second. Like new.
Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dj.
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