Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, like new in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AMIS on title page. With The House of Meetings, Martin Amis may finally have written the novel his critics thought would never come. By taming his signature (and polarizing) stylistic high-wire act, Amis has crafted a sober tale of love and cynicism against the grim curtain of Stalin's Russia. The book's anonymous narrator--a Red Army veteran and unapologetic war criminal--and his passive, poetic half-brother, Lev, become pinned in a politically dangerous love triangle with the exotic Zoya, though their tactics (and intentions) are as divergent as their personalities. Swept up in the wave of Stalin's paranoid purges, the brothers are sent independently to Norlag, a Siberian internment camp where their respective fates are cast through their contrasting reactions to the depravity of the prison. Zoya and Lev share a night in "The House of Meetings," a room provided for conjugal visits with the prisoners, and the events of that night reverberate through the decades, the details of the liaison remaining concealed until the story's devastating denouement.

Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 254 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cloth covers with gilt titles. Pages are clean, unmarked. Dust jacket missing 2.25" of paper from bottom portion of spine, chipping and pieces missing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Previous owners name and date at top of front endpaper. Black cloth covers show standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Investigating the mysterious death of the local librarian, Ellie Haskell is entranced by the arrival of romance cover model Karisma, whose muscle-bound fund-raiser is upended by second and third murders.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. His highly praised first novel (4th book).

Hardcover. NY, The Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the 1991 Edgar Award-winning author of New Orleans Mourning comes a witty mystery featuring writer/sleuth Paul McDonald. When his burglar friend Booker "happens" on part of Mark Twain's original manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he wants Paul to help find its rightful owner. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Canongate Books Ltd, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Penguin, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped jacket, 247 pages. SIGNED BY PROSE on title page. The author offers a sharp-eyed consideration of how men and women differ in their pursuit - and avoidance - of power, sex, and competition. A satire of the pieties of New Age religion and knee-jerk feminism.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket, 247 pages. SIGNED BY PROSE on title page. The author offers a sharp-eyed consideration of how men and women differ in their pursuit - and avoidance - of power, sex, and competition. A satire of the pieties of New Age religion and knee-jerk feminism.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 1995, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PROSE on front fly leaf . Dust jacket price clipped. Pages 219-246 disconnected from binding, gutter cracked.

NY, Venture, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2006-12-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Mylar cover. Light wear to dust jacket, else like new. Released as a translated to English novel in 1978 as a follow up to the monster epic historical fantasy "Terra Nostra," Fuentes displays his versatile written skills with adept perception. This is a captivating spy novel that features many characters but focuses on Felix Maldonado who is a low level Mexican bureaucrat. Maldonado is portrayed as a sort of everyman who suddenly finds himself thrust into bigger than life circumstances. On a day when the president of Mexico is making an appearance Maldonado, who was looking forward to the day suddenly finds himself being involved unvoluntarily into an assassination plot. He is declared dead and given a new identity, a sly bit of writting to create another faceless citizen of Mexico. From here the novel takes off into twists and turns to unravel the mystery and Maldonados and others role in the assassination attempt.

Hardcover. London, Harvill Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a translucent dust jacket, 165 pages. Illustrated with Steve Pyke's b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH O'GRADY AND PYKE on the title page. Stranded in a dismal flat in England, the protagonist remembers his happy childhood in Ireland, the rough living and working conditions in England, and his only love. The language is quite simple and often Hiberno Irish, but deeply imaginative and so lyrical, that the line between prose and poetry gets blurred. The beautiful black/white pictures added to this book, and the author's ability to portray Irish music help to give an insight into Irish culture. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Paperback. Popular Library Mystery #763. Mild soil. Ink notation on front page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket with light edgewear, clean.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st US, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, darkening to endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with spine label lightly chipped. 315 pages, two short novels in one book. Inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury Publishing , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a very worn dust jacket with tape repairs. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Vidal's second novel, a work with some gay aspects but one in which the author felt he played things a bit too safely. "Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city." Book is tight and clean.