Fiction Novels

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly , 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SELF on title page. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 337 pages. unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover, with minor rubbing. Remainder mark to top edge. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. The memorable Arkansas town from the perspective of its smallest denizens.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 309 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages plus ads in rear. Hardcover. Orange cloth with black lettering. Stated Second Printing on copyright page. Spine a little cocked otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 356 pages. Dark blue boards, black cloth spine with orange metallic titles, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering, endpapers decorated with red map of Southern Blue Ridge mountains. Circular sticker to front panel of dust jacket with praise from John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. No wear to dust jacket or covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an excelptionally clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a dust jacket with light fading to spine. The author's uncommon first book. Ex-lib with endpapers residue and light stamping. A novel about a high school's star majorette in a small delta town in the South.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages, SIGNED BY DONALD WESTLAKE(STARK) on title page.

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1966, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Dark green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine, top of spine is light violet. A near fine copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages: (1) 312, (2) 321. Hardcovers. 2 VOLUME SET. International Limited Edition Set: #959 out of 1000 printed sets. All volumes: B/w illustrations/plates throughout, each with tissue guard, bound in green cloth (slight fraying at top of spine), paste down title label on spine (some tanning and chipping to labels, but both are in good shape and legible). Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Tanning to pages and edges due to advanced age. Beautiful collector's item over 120 years old.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. Maus is a holocaust survival story, a biography, and an autobiography. Written as a graphic novel (and winner of a Pulitzer Prize), Art Spiegelman captures the process of interviewing his father while simultaneously telling his father's story. In that sense, the text is very self-reflexive - there are parts in it showing Spiegelman working to create the very page you read, as previous parts of the his father's story are reintroduced from previous portions of the text. The story is complex. It not only details the horrors of the holocaust and the extreme lengths to which people went to survive, but it also captures the harrowing guilt survivors faced, and the lifelong aftereffects of the war. It also shows the struggle between father and son, both through the lens of a typical familial challenge, and of those unique between a survivor and child born afterwards.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. Maus is a holocaust survival story, a biography, and an autobiography. Written as a graphic novel (and winner of a Pulitzer Prize), Art Spiegelman captures the process of interviewing his father while simultaneously telling his father's story. In that sense, the text is very self-reflexive - there are parts in it showing Spiegelman working to create the very page you read, as previous parts of the his father's story are reintroduced from previous portions of the text. The story is complex. It not only details the horrors of the holocaust and the extreme lengths to which people went to survive, but it also captures the harrowing guilt survivors faced, and the lifelong aftereffects of the war. It also shows the struggle between father and son, both through the lens of a typical familial challenge, and of those unique between a survivor and child born afterwards.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, price-clipped. In this masterwork of confessional literature, a man approaching middle age recalls his impetuous youth with fondness, remorse, and astonishment. Vance Bourjaily's memoir is a frank and introspective look into his early years as an alcoholic and drug addict. The book chronicles Bourjaily's struggles with sobriety and his journey back to self-respect and confidence. Bourjaily provides readers with a candid look into the depths of addiction and the lengths to which people will go to escape from their problems. No edition or printing indicated. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1st , 1880, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Terra cotta cloth with beveled edges, gilt lettering on spine, Houghton Osgood imprint. Spine is slightly cocked. Nice, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1st US, 1880, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Green cloth hardcover. Spine cocked. Rear interior hinge cracked. Some stress to binding threads that hold page sections. Moderate fraying to cloth at bottom of spine. Rubbing to corners of front cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page and Co., reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with spine label, top edge gilt. A volume from Disraeli's collected works, a reprint of the 1844 edition. Two b&w illustrations by Byam Shaw. The first of a trilogy of novels (together with Sybil and Tancred) which marked a departure from Disraeli's silver-fork novels of the 1830s and which are his most famous. The book is set against a background of the real political events of the 1830s in England that followed the enactment of the Reform Bill of 1832. In describing these events Disraeli sets out his own beliefs including his opposition to Robert Peel, his dislikes of both the British Whig Party and the ideals of Utilitarianism, and the need for social justice in a newly industrialized society. He portrays the self-serving politician in the character of Rigby (based on John Wilson Croker) and the malicious party insiders in the characters of Taper and Tadpole. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Vanise Dorsinville is fleeing Haiti while Robert Dubois abandons his life in New Hampshire; a novel of how their lives collide. Continental Drift is the story of a young blue-collar worker and family man who abandons his broken dreams in New Hampshire and the story of a young Haitian woman who, with her nephew and baby, flees the brutal injustice and poverty of her homeland. A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Hoyt's sixth novel is an international spy thriller that twists the face of the Cold War into a crooked grin when a working model of a small atom bomb falls into the wrong hands and ends up targeted for New York City.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in light blue, 318 pages. 1922 on title page so true first. Novel about cowboys and a copper mountain written by an actual cowboy. Spine faded, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages illustrated in color by P. Craig Russell. A first printing of the graphic novel adaptation of the 2002 novel.

Softcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st ARC, 1992, Softcover. Advance uncorrected proof in non-pictorial tan card covers. Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, gets a job appearing as a forklift operator in a corporate video, but when the forklift is used to murder a young secretary, Charles must find the killer. Publisher's PR release laid-in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers. No dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom copy edge. Otherwise, clean and bright; a tight copy.