Fiction Novels

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&W illust by John T. McCutcheon. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages: (1) 400, (2) 383. 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 (some fraying at top and bottom of spine), paste down title label on spine (some tanning and chipping to labels, but all are in good shape and legible). Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Tanning to pages and edges due to advanced age, a few small spots of soil or rubbing to covers. Beautiful collector's item over 120 years old.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Altogether original, at once searing and amusing, this darkly comic novel confronts Harold Klein, now in his infirm seventies, with a strange malady -- the loss of his "inner voice" -- and introduces him to the steamy world of Internet sex. Inexplicably bereft of the mental faculty that would under normal circumstances keep him from blurting out, uncensored, the first thought that pops into his head, art connoisseur Klein wanders one evening into a pornographic Web site, Angelica's Grotto. An ongoing on-line dialogue, totally without verbal inhibition on Klein's part, eventually brings him face-to-face with the brains behind the grotto, an academic sex researcher named Melissa Bottomley. Harold Klein's erotic odyssey takes him not only through unimagined erogenous zones but also into arcane corners of the art world, as he seeks to meet Melissa's need for funding and she his for sexual gratification. As Klein strives to reconcile new desires with old habits, author Russell Hoban compellingly explores the dark relations between art and pornography, acts virtual and real, culture and politics, revelation and privacy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NIXON on title page, also INSCRIBED on opposite page.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NIXON on title page, also INSCRIBED on opposite page. Clean copy. Two people who can't live with each other or without each other. She wants to have children. He doesn't want to contribute to an already damaged-by-humans planet. This disagreement proceed a series of truly terrible events.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED, dated on title-page by author. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Ata Books, 1st pbk, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 303 pages. A fictionalized account of the relationship between Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Ribeiro de Duarte, the fiery Brazilian girl who left her husband to fight beside Garibaldi in South America and Italy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Unbridled Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 418 pages. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Bright and clean, a tight copy.

Softcover. Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A draft of Beattie's 1995 novel bound in black plastic spiral binding. No date, no markings. 500 pages, doubled-spaced.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark green cloth covers, 438 pages plus ads. B&W frontis. illustration, Gilt lettering on spine with Collins's facsimile signature in gilt on cover. A volume from the author's collected works. Antonina was begun in April 1846, delayed for a year during the writing of The Memoirs of William Collins, R.A., and published in 1850. It is written in a laborious, deliberately florid style using detail from Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and modelled on Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). The plot is challenging, with many passages reading like a cross between a guide book to ancient Rome (based on Collins's visit in 1837) and a description of his father's paintings. Other sections, particularly the more horrific and violent, are vividly written and there are already indications of Collins's interest in physical handicap and abnormal states of mind, and his dislike of all forms of extremism. The conflict between the imaginative and artistic Antonina and her stern father is reworked to better effect in Collins's next novel, Basil. Antonina received good reviews, sold consistently and was reprinted throughout Collins's lifetime and well into the twentieth century. Exceptionally bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 498 pages. This novel was the basis for the PBS Mini-series of the same name that's a lifetime story of Logan Mountstuart that was played by three different actors.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Publisher's $2.50 price at the top of the front flap; previous owner's name and address on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Short tape repairs to verso of dust jacket.

Softcover. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps. Paperback original. Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Signed by author on title page. Clean copy.

Softcover. Minneapolis, Minn., Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 195 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Wraps with slight edge wear. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brick cloth covered boards with gilt titles & gilt compartment lines to spine. Small tear to crown & heel of spine. Light toning to pages throughout, tight binding, a few pages with small spots to gutter, else clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator's fixer. He's already gotten rid of one troublesome young woman--how hard could this new one turn out to be?Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old Fanny Cours knows her reputation and budding career are on the line. But what she doesn't realize is that her life might be as well...Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 310 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes and Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 341 pages, with illustrations by H. Burgess, gilt titles and illustrated cover. Minor corner and edge wear, light foxing on edges, and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 198 pages. SIGNED BY LEAVITT on title page. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.