About Centennial: Some Notes on the Novel
Random House, January 1974. Limited. Cloth. Octavo. Limited edition of 3200. First edition. Off white cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Silver emblem on front. [57 pp.]. More
Fiction & Literature
Tales of the South Pacific -- The Franklin Library Pulitzer Prize Series
Franklin Library, January 1975. Limited. Leather. Octavo. Blue leather with gold lettering & gold floral decor. Ribbed spine. Teal colored moire end pages. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon markers. Tight binding. [413 pp.] 1948 winner of Pulitzer prize for literature 1948. More
The Voice of Asia
Random House, October 1951. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in heavily chipped & torn DJ with large one-inch triangular chip at head of spine. Darkening of verso. Flap not clipped. Grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering in rectangular field of black and gold floral design above and below the title..... More
American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World
Basic Books (AZ), March 2005. Hardcover. Called a "man of genius" by his close friend Thomas Jefferson, John Ledyard lived, by any standard, a remarkable life. In his thirty-eight years, he accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage; befriended Jefferson, Lafayette, and Tom Paine in Paris; was the first American..... More
Dubliners
Modern Library, November 1978. First Thus. Hardcover. Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a...... More
Death in Holy Orders
Alfred A. Knopf, April 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Commander Dalgliesh, P.D. James's great detective, returns after four years. An untimely death brings him to the East Anglian coast where a young man has fallen from a cliff at the small theological college of St. Anselm's. He agrees to investigate, but..... More
The Mexican Tree Duck
Mysterious Press, October 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. Ex-private eye C.W. Sughrue has been depressed, jobless and living in the basement of a morgue, but now a job has come up. He sets off on an odyssey of liquor, sex and gunplay to find a missing woman who has eluded the..... More
The Last of the Mohicans (Leatherstocking Tale)
Penguin Classics, July 1986. Trade Paperback. Illus. in black-and-white. This action-packed edition of James Fenimore Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French and Indian War to vivid life. More
Moon Witch, Spider King
Riverhead Books, February 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "Masterfully flips the first installment on its head... James makes the mythic tantalizingly real.'" --Esquire "Even more brilliant than the first." --Buzzfeed An Instant New York Times Bestseller and NPR Best Book of 2022 pick From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National..... More
Henry James : Literary Criticism -- Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers (The Library of America) (v. 1)
Library of America, July 1985. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with clipped front flap. Tan cloth covered boards with gold lettering in maroon rectangle on spine. Dust stained top edge. Foxing, dark stains fore-edge. Silk ribbon marker. [1484 pp.]. More
Daisy Miller
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1995. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Lay Down My Sword and Shield
Gallery Books, February 2010. Trade Paperback. Vintage James Lee Burke: The first novel introducing the memorable Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, coming of age against the backdrop of the civil rights era in a sultry border town. In hot and sultry Texas, Hack, an attorney and Korean War POW, is being..... More
The Portrait of a Lady
Norton, January 1975. Trade Paperback. As is. Undelining/marks on just a few pages. More
Henry James: Selected Letters
Belknap Press, February 1990. Trade Paperback. He was a supreme artist in the intimacies and connections that bind people together or tear them apart, says Leon Edel in his introduction to this collection of Henry James's best letters. Edel has chosen, from the four-volume epistolarium already published, those letters which..... More
Towing Jehovah
Mariner Books, April 1995. Trade Paperback. "The irreducible strangeness of the universe was first made manifest to Anthony Van Horne on his fiftieth birthday, when a despondent angel named Raphael, a being with luminous white wings and a halo that blinked on and off like a neon quoit, appeared and..... More
The Hand-Carved Creche: And Other Christmas Stories
Hill Street Press, June 1999. Hardcover. Bumped at the bottom of the spine (jacket and book). More
The Wing-and-Wing (Heart of Oak Sea Classics Series)
Holt Paperbacks, October 1998. Trade Paperback. More
Chesapeake
Random House, June 1978. First Edition. Cloth. "Michener's most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope." THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER "Brilliantly written." ASSOCIATED PRESS Once again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America's great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his..... More
The Awkward Age (Modern Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. More
The American (American Library)
Penguin Classics, December 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. Some edgewear to covers. Toning. Slightly bowed spine. Good+/Very good reading copy with a few stray pencil marks in margins. (472 pages.). More
New World Writing: 6th Mentor Selection-- A New Adventure in Modern Reading; Fiction + Drama + +Poetry + Criticiam (Ms 118)
Mentor / The New American Library, October 1954. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear and darkening/foxing. Some curling to cover. Foxing to interiors, especially verso of cover pages. (307 pages plus twelve page list Mentor and NAL/Signet titles.). More
Figures of Earth (Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series)
Ballantine Books, October 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. More
The deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Willey Book Company, 1910. Reprint. Cloth. This reprint is not dated anywhere, but according to what I have been able to determine it was printed in 1910. Heavily chipped, darkened dustjacket with two inch x one inch chip top of front panel upper righthand corner. Also about 1/8th' chipping across..... More
The Hunters
Counterpoint, July 1997. First Thus. Hardcover. Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational F-86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up..... More
Poems 1957-1967 (06932)
Collier Books, 1968. Reprint. Paper Back. 2nd Collier paperback printing. Clean, sound, with mild wear to cover edges. Interiors unmarked, no underlining, no side-notes, etc. (299 pages). More
