Fiction Novels

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. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 300 pages. Set against the backdrop of Italy between 1939 to 1944 - the months of anxiety before the country entered the war through to the tension following the Allied victory - "All Our Yesterdays" follows the lives of two families during the period of great turbulence and tells how the children grow into war and its aftermath. The boys flirt with revolution; Amalia marries a young German Jew; Concettina marries into a family that supports Mussolini; and Anna the youngest child, becomes pregnant when she is sixteen and is married off to Cenzo Rena, an eccentric family friend. War scatters them, but even war cannot break their bonds. All Our Yesterdays is about the endurance and resilience of people living through adolescence and early adulthood in a hostile world. Ex-lib with minor residue to rear endpaper and dust jacket taped to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound, accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Illustrated by Richard Krepel. Clean and bright. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 570 pages. Mylar cover. Slight wear to edges of dust jacket, else a neat, tight copy. His third novel, an epic historical novel set during the Civil War. Includes a list of the characters and a calendar of the War.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 321 pages, with 80 illustrations by F. H. Townsend. Gilt titles. Corner and spine edge wear, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Hardcover. NY, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. "Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, 'American Rust' is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty around them who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and the polluted river. Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mother commits suicide and his sister Lee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mother's trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaac's leaving, something happens that changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, 'American Rust' is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us."

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CHOI on the title page. On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell. American Woman draws its plot from the Patty Hearst Kidnapping in 1974. It is more than a simple retelling of known facts. The author opens up her characters - their psychology, their background. She gives a sense of the times and of real people in those times. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY LETHEM on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 304 pages. The author's first novel.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black cloth stamped in gilt. Contemporary novel of a young couple facing the Great Depression. Several pages with creasing, light soil to covers. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 270 pages, very good in a rubbed dust jacket with light edgewear. Mailer's fourth novel and seventh book describes thirty-two hours in the life of college professor and war hero Stephen Rojack during a 1960s existential journey on Manhattan's East Side.

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in New York City, Mailer's first novel in 10 years explores the dark side of the American Dream over a 32-hour time period in the life of Stephen Richards Rojack--war hero/college professor/talk show host/husband--and murderer. Originally serialized in Esquire magazine in slightly different form in 1964, this is the First Edition in book form from 1965. The basis for a film starring Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh. Name on first blank page, otherwise a clean copy.

Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Harcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. This is the story of what happened to Ellen DeLay in Quillifarkeag, Maine. Quilli (to the locals) has a lot in common with the small towns that Stephen King so often writes about: there are strange characters with strange names (to some of us) who have lived in the area all their lives, as did their parents before them and their grandparents before that--you get the idea. The narrator tells us that his daughter is a killer and he wants to get the whole story down. He takes his time about it, but what we know from the get-go is that Ellen DeLay was gunned down by four female officers of the law who pumped two hundred rounds into her body. Ellen had been married to Joe for 25 years, but she left him after he accidentally locked her in the part of his truck where he kept his tools--for four days. Ellen thought that Joe was trying to kill her while Joe thought that Ellen had left him. In any case, this incident prompted Ellen to head for the north woods, where, over the years, she learned to dress hunters' kills and became a respected businesswoman. There were a few, especially kids, who thought she was just a crazy woman in the woods but, for the most part, Ellen was left alone. Over the course of 250 pages, the narrator carefully pieces together the details of what happened one afternoon at St. Antoine du Plupart and, just as importantly, what happened afterwards. Being from Maine, the narrator takes his time. He has other things to do and other stories to tell, but in the end every detail about what is truly an American outrage is told. G.K. Wuori is the author of Nude in Tub and has a wonderful gift for language and a heartfelt affection for the place about which he writes.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 383 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Scarce novel about the War of 1812.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrations in 2-colors by Frederick T. Chapman. This stirring tale of Iceland fishermen; of their expeditions to the cold and dangerous regions where the summers no longer have nights, and of their return to their firesides in Paimpol--is one of the great masterpieces of French literature. It is a gripping tale of adventure and romance, a colorful and exciting story of fearless men, and of their patient, courageous wives.

Hardcover. Avon CT, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a glassine dust jacket, housed in a very good slipcase. Introduction by Clifton Fadiman, illustrated by Robert Shore with 12 full page images. Limited edition, copy 1370 of 2000, signed by Shore, printed by the Stinehour Press. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times best-selling author Charles Todd. Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated by the King. The next morning when Bess goes to collect Wilkins, he has vanished. Both the Army and the nursing service hold Bess negligent for losing the war hero, and there will be an inquiry. Then comes disturbing word from the Shropshire police, complicating the already difficult situation: Wilkins has been spotted, and he's killed a man. If Bess is to save her own reputation, she must find Wilkins and uncover the truth. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, F&F, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Her 1st novel. Dust jacket price clipped bottom. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 2nd, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Fraying and heavy rubbing on blue cover boards, corners frayed and ligth worm damage to margins.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.