Fiction Novels

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly worn dust jacket. 240 pages, turquoise cloth covers, silver lettered spine. Red-violet endpapers, top outer edge tinted black. Jacket design by Antiono Frasconi. Novel based on the slave societies of the West Indies in the 1750s. No markings.

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 164 pages. When David's parents, who argue all the time, decide to take separate vacations, they agree to send him to his Grandma Ruthie's--whom he hardly knows--for a whole month! But the quiet town she lives in offers David the people, events, and ideas that help him realize what is best for his own future. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with art by Edward Gorey.

Hardcover. New York , Edward Clode, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 349 pages, green cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece illustration. First few pages loose. Small blue pen writing back paste-down. Previous owner's sticker front paste down. Partial wear on front paste-down from missing sticker. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg.

Hardcover. New York, Granta Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 270 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing to back. Authors first book.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. McBain's first book to feature Benjamin Smoke, a retired Police Officer now Private Detective.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1st US, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 214 pages. Dust jacket worn and slightly foxed with chipping to upper edges of spine and front cover, protected by clear brodart cover. Overall a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first novel in the 'Detroit Crime Series' in which the city is treated as an organic entity through various decades of the 20th century, "WHISKEY RIVER" spans from the Prohibition Era to the late 1930s. Constantine ("Connie") Minor is a Detroit-based journalist who has made a name for himself covering the crime beat in the late 1920s/early 1930s. This was a time in which bootleggers and mobsters carved out Detroit into spheres of influence over which they exerted and established firm control over, not only, the illegal importation of alcohol, but also the numbers rackets, and prostitution. Many of the city's cops often looked the other way, picking and choosing what crimes to solve or ignore (courtesy of a bribe). All the while, Detroit's industrial might (as evidenced by the auto industry) continued to grow, giving the city a dazzling prosperity soon to be tempered by the ravages of the 1929 stock market crash and resulting Depression. Clean copy.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with 3-color cowboy design on cover, 421 pages. Notable for the 4 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Hinges cracked, pencil inscription on front fly leaf, spine faded, otherwise good.

Hardcover. NY, Soho, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in the UK in 1969.

Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 194 pages.A fox hunt--a memorial to the late Harold T. Van Fleet--becomes a disturbing and sordid event in which the connection between sexual and artistic dominance is explored.

UK, Goldmark Uppingham, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages plus acknowledgements. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Sinclair brings together an impressively predatory and seedy group of contemporary antiquarian book-dealers and an investigation of the 19th century Jack the Ripper murders. The double plot fuses a hunt for rare books and the Ripper.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. A nice copy of Bulgakov's 1920's novel that became the play 'The Days of the Turbins' in 1926. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Half cloth boards. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Number 77 of no more than 100 copies authorized for distribution by Signed Editions Limited. Dust jacket has light crease on front flap.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in an orange cloth binding. Light shelf wear, soil. By the author of the Fu Manchu stories, this novel is a mixture of romance & secret-service intrigue set amidst the milieu of a vaudeville troupe of the East.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 148 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, small 1 centimeter chunk missing from top spine edge. Small bump on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , true 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Dust jacket faded, chipped, worn.

Hardcover. Huntington Beach CA, Cahill Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Limited edition #114of 150 copies. Pink marbled covers with leather band on spine. Acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Spiegelman. Clean, tight copy. The quintessential hardboiled twenties poem, basis for two stage musicals and a 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch. Remainder dot to top edge.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Spiegelman. Clean, tight copy. The quintessential hardboiled twenties poem, basis for two stage musicals and a 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch.