Fiction Novels

Hardcover. New York, F. Tennyson Neely, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages + publishers ads. B&w illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations to front and spine. Faint foxing to top edge, light wear to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Palazzo Editions, reprint, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 209 pages. Illustrated in color by Robert Ingpen. Around the World in Eighty Days is an evocation of an era when all travel was an adventure - and Jules Verne's tale of a race against the clock has never lost its power to thrill. Set in 1872, Mr. Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of precision and predictability, and his manservant, the ever resourceful Passepartout, ride through India on an elephant, sail the South China Sea in the teeth of a typhoon and cross the snow-covered plains of the American Wild West in order to fulfill a wager that the journey can be completed in just eighty days. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, barcode sticker on back dust jacket cover, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 283 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel Arrogance, the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature until at the age of twenty-eight, the artist dies in the Great Flu Pandemic. Told from a crosscurrent of voices, viewpoints and times, this stunning novel won Scott a nomination for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous New England writers suddenly go up in smoke, he must prove his innocence by uncovering the identity of this literary-minded arsonist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy in a bright dust jacket. Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University where both she and Philip work has created a hole, a vacuum, a doorway of nothingness inside the laboratory. They call it "Lack." Alice becomes obsessed with Lack, as Philip is obsessed by Alice.The novel is at the same time an astute and wise portrait of unrequited love (albeit of a very unusual kind) a hilarious academic parody, a novel of ideas and a social satire. It is utterly original, but in the school of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Katherine Dunn, and David Foster Wallace.

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. Color frontispiece and 2 b&w plates (not credited), 299 pages. The adventure of Zeb Pike, a young officer sent to explore the Mississippi and to make treaties with the Indians he meets on the way. Light soil to top edge otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in England in 2003 and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Clean copy. Taking its title from a description of Peter Pan's Neverland, Astonishing Splashes of Colour follows the life of Kitty, a woman who, in a sense, has never grown up. As her moods swing dramatically from high to low, they are illuminated by an unusual ability to interpret people and emotions through color. Kitty struggles to come to terms with her life, including the loss of her mother, a miscarriage, and an unconventional marriage to her husband, who lives in the apartment next door. And when her father and brothers reveal a family secret long hidden, it overwhelms Kitty's tenuous hold on reality and propels her on an impetuous journey to the brink of madness.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT , Countryman Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A darkly comic mystery in which Chief Supt. Colin Harper hopes to find the missing brains of a bank robbing gang who has gone missing with more than his share of the loot, before the vengeful members of the gang go beyond simply kidnapping their leader's daughter.

Hardcover. Boston, Journey Editions, 1st, 1994, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 248 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Bragg. In Asylum Earth, nothing is quite as it seems. Toulouse-Lautrec shares a room with El Greco in "Art Heaven," while back among the living, an irate "Letter to the Editor" demands that someone go in and finish "all those impressionist paintings - why leave just an impression?" Irreverent and brilliantly funny, Bragg brings us a view of his own special reality - and sheds new light on what we know of our own. Witticisms, satire, and irony abound, and no profession or institution escapes Bragg's sharp eye. Often compared to Daumier, Nast, and Bosch, Bragg is a master of observation. Once our human frailties are scrutinized by his myopic gaze, we may never see ourselves in quite the same way again! Illustrated throughout with Bragg's paintings and etchings.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light rubbing to corners. Clean, tight copy. Janvier"s last book, published shortly after his death in 1913, a humorous and affectionate look at a piece of the New York City he so loved. In the preface, Ripley Hitchcock describes the "Casa Napoleon" as a "very definite haven for wanderers of Latin origin which for several years opened hospitable doors upon a side-street near lower Fifth Avenue. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 black and white plates.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd printing, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 213 pages. Slight wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Cassell, 1st thus, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 172 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gustave Dore. Translated by James Spence Harry. Introduction by Edward J. Harding. Gilt edges. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and gold and black decoration. Beautifully lllustrated with 30 full page plates and numerous in-text vignettes by Gustave Dore. Tears to frontispiece tissue guard. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Chipping, tears to front end paper. Rear endpaper missing. Some markings to covers. Wear to corners and spine. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Minor wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Minor wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.

Softcover. Hanover, NH, Wesleyan University Press, 2nd, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, shelf-rubbing to covers, else a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, First printing. Another well received novel from the author of "Mariette in Ecstacy" A finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED BY HANSEN on the title page. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, ist thus, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, The Photogravure Series. Attractive green cloth covers with gilt titles and gilt embossed design. 12 b/w tissue-guarded photogravures after drawings by Gilbert James. 91 pages. Top edge gilt. Small scar to cloth on rear cover, spine gilt faded. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 645 pages, fold-out map in rear, translated by Michael Glenny. The work tells about the beginning of the First World War and the unsuccessful offensive of the Russian army in East Prussia. The author uses the methods of documentary narration within the framework of a work of fiction and describes not only the military campaign, but also the experience of people caught in the middle of events. Red top edge. Edge wear, small pieces missing from dust jacket; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 5th pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with Booker List sticker. Two old friends-Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984-look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages, bright, clean copy with a similar, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYNARD with name and sketch on half title page.