Category: Modern Fiction First Editions

First Light

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, England, Hamish Hamilton : 1989

Seller ID: A40379

ISBN-13: 9780241124987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Cover Art; The book is in Very Good+ condition with a Near Fine Dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean, however, there is some generalized toning to the pages due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "In his novels he often contrasts historical settings with present-day segments (e. G. The Great Fire of London, Hawksmoor, The House of Doctor Dee). Many of Ackroyd's novels are set in London and deal with the ever-changing, but at the same time stubbornly consistent nature of the city. Often this theme is e...
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War By Candlelight Stories

By: Alarcon, Daniel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harpercollins : 2005

Seller ID: A40223

ISBN-13: 9780060594787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of a small round spot of glue residue where a sticker was removed. "Daniel Alarcón (born March 5,1977 in Lima, Peru) is a novelist, journalist and radio producer. He is co-founder, host and Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante, an award-winning Spanish language podcast distributed by NPR. Currently, he is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the Columbia University...
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The Pary At Cranton

By: Aldridge, John W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, England, Constable : 1960

Seller ID: A40997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There are a couple of small spots of a brownish color to the very bottom edge of the spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. All edges of the text block have some light foxing. The dust jacket is mostl clean and bright. There are several spots of rubbing to the dust jacket. "Using American Modernist writing of the 1920s as his lofty standard, Aldridge wrote of the creative dilemmas faced by those writers who arrived on the literary scene a generatio...
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Brick Lane

By: Ali, Monica

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Scribners : 2003

Seller ID: A39940

ISBN-13: 9780385604840

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Signed Edition. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Monica Ali (born 20 October 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut novel, Brick Lane, was published later that year. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It w...
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A Cathedral Singer

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Company : 1916

Seller ID: A32428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but do have occasional spots of foxing / toning. The frontispiece is by Sigismond de Ivanowski. "Slowly on Morningside Heights rises the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; standing on a high rock under the Northern sky above the long wash of the untroubled sea, above the wash of the troubled waves of men."
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A Viking's Daughter

By: Andrews, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday : 1989

Seller ID: A40612

ISBN-13: 9780385249713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.
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The Wolf '74 (General Theme: I Remember Jack")

By: Annual Jack London Birthday Banquet / David H. Schlottmann

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Olympia, WA, David H. Schlottmann : 1974

Seller ID: A40901

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

This is a thin trade sized booklet with illustrated cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some very beginning fading to the spine joints of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. Laid in is a typed errata slip. The back inside cover has a card pocket adhered, with a facsimile of the Jack London story: A Northland Miracle which was originally published in the Youth's Companion (November 4, 1926). This booklet includes the winners of the writing competition held yearly by the Jack London Foundation -...
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Rezanov

By: Atherton, Gertrude

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Authors and Newspaper Association : 1906

Seller ID: A35606

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Color Illustrations; This is a Powers Special Edition (Minneapolis, MN) which includes a facsimile page of the manuscript from Rulers of Kings. This book is in Near Fine condition and is missing the accompanying dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of page 118-119 which has a small toned area where something was placed. There is an inked name and date on the reverse of the frontispiece . This book includes three full page, full color illustrations along with a full color frontispiece. "Gertrude Franklin Ho...
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The White Morning A Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime

By: Atherton, Gertrude

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company : 1918

Seller ID: A35616

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and is missing the accompanying dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is some toning / darkening between pages 8 and 9 at the spine joint. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front endpaper. The frontispiece and front cover illustration are from a photograph by Arnold Genthe. "Countess Gisela Niebuhr sat in the long dusk of Munich staring over at the beautiful park that in happier days had been famous in the world as the Englischer Garten, and...
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The Conqueror Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton

By: Atherton, Gertrude (Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company : 1902

Seller ID: A33973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

SIGNED EDITION. First Edition, First Issue, with page numerals at the top left corner on page 546. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the accompanying dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The endpapers have some light but noticeable foxing and toning. There is a previous owner's book plate adhered to the front pastedown page. The inner hinges are a bit loose. This copy has been signed by the author with an inscription on the half title page. "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton...
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Life Before Man

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1979

Seller ID: A40261

ISBN-13: 9780771008078

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The top front corner of the book cover has one small bump. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, though both flaps have some toning to the edges." Margaret Eleanor Atwood CH CC OOnt CH FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and environmental activist. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections...
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The Robber Bride

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, England, Bloomsbury Publishing : 1993

Seller ID: A32431

ISBN-13: 9780747516132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. The text block includes a sewn in ribbon book marker. "In her captivating new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the sex wars. The group of women and men at the centre of this wise, unsettling, drastic, funny and wholly involving story all fall prey to a chillingly recognisable menace, which is given its power by their own fantasies and delusions." "Margaret Eleanor Atwood...
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The Robber Bride

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday / Nan Talese : 1993

Seller ID: A40263

ISBN-13: 9780385260084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

First US Trade Edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.
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Wilderness Tips

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday / Nan Talese : 1991

Seller ID: A39973

ISBN-13: 9780385421065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Margaret Eleanor Atwood CH CC OOnt CH FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and environmental activist. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, as well as a number of small press editions of both poetry...
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The Mammoth Hunters

By: Auel, Jean M.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers : 1985

Seller ID: A39252

ISBN-13: 9780340349342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "In 1977, Auel began extensive library research of the Ice Age for her first book. She joined a survival class to learn how to construct an ice cave, and learned primitive methods of making fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone from the aboriginal skills expert Jim Riggs. The Clan of the Cave Bear was nominated for numerous literary awards, including an American Booksellers Association nominat...
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Isidro

By: Austin, Mary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin and Company : 1905

Seller ID: A42271

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light wear, rubbing and nicking to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some beginning fraying to the spine ends and corners and some rubbing to the front and rear panels. The spine of the book cover has some darkening / toning. The text pages are clean and bright. The front and rear free pages have heavy toning. "Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 ? August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the earl...
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VOX A Novel

By: Baker, Nicholson

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1992

Seller ID: A41627

ISBN-13: 9780140140576

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

This is an Advanced Reading / Review Copy. This is a trade paperback with its original brown paper wrapper. This book is in Near Fine condition with a Very Good+ wrapper. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The wrapper has one very beginning edge tear to the top front corner and the rear flap has a light, but noticable crease. "Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. His early novels such as The Mezza...
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The Day Of Creation

By: Ballard, J. G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, England, Victor Gollancz Ltd : 1987

Seller ID: A40957

ISBN-13: 9780575041523

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 ? 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories (or "condensed novels") , such as those collected in the controversial Th...
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Farewell Miss Julie Logan A Wintry Tale

By: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1932

Seller ID: A35605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Previously published in the UK both as a Times Supplement and a hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the glassine cover. The book is bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations to the front cover and spine of book. The spine of the book has noticeable fading, as do the spine joints. There is one small scratch to the rear cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "I think it prudent to go no nearer to the date, in case what I am writing should take an ill turn or fall into curious hands. I need not be so guarded about the weather. ...
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The Greenwood Hat Being a Memoir of James Anon [1885-1887]

By: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1938

Seller ID: A42812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and some spots of rubbing, and a couple of small chips. "Following a job advertisement found by his sister in The Scotsman, he worked for a year and a half as a staff journalist on the Nottingham Journal. Back in Kirriemuir, he s...
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Chimera

By: Barth, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Random House, Inc. : 1972

Seller ID: A35607

ISBN-13: 9780394481395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

First Trade Edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with a touch of toning / yellowing to the white edges of the dust jacket. There is also one tiny spot of beginning rubbing to the bottom front flap joint. There are two creases to the front flap of the dust jacket. This book is a National Book Award winner. "John Simmons Barth ( born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and m...
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The Astronomer and Other Stories

By: Betts, Doris

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1965

Seller ID: A32454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some very beginning fading to the black cloth on the edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. This book contains a series of short works, Including: The Spies in the Herb House, The Mandarin, Clarissa and the Depths, The Dead Mule, The Proud and Virtuous, All that Glisters Isn't Gold, Careful, Sharp Eggs Underfoot, and, The Astronomer. "These stories encompass the elemental passions of love and sex, forgi...
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Love Insurance

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs-Merrill Company : 1914

Seller ID: A32736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. Illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations by Frank Snapp. "Allan, Lord Harrowby, son and heir of James Nelson Harrowby, came to Lloyds of London with a most unusual request for insurance. He knew that Lloyds took out policies on unusual risks. And what he wanted was insurance of a most unusual kind...love insurance. What follows is a ...
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Code Of Arms

By: Block, Lawrence and Harold King

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Richard Marek Publishers : 1981

Seller ID: A33917

ISBN-13: 9780399900297

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine - condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light, but noticeable rubbing to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some beginning edge wear and nicking to the spine end and there is one very beginning semi-closed edge tear to the bottom front edge of the dust jacket. "It is 1940. The British, having survived Dunkirk, are braced for the invasion of their homeland that is surely coming. Unquestio...
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The Tortilla Curtain

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Viking : 1995

Seller ID: A40687

ISBN-13: 9780670856046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948) , is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published sixteen novels and more than 100 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He was previously a Distinguished Professor...
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The History Of Luminous Motion

By: Bradfield, Scott

Price: $70.00

Publisher: London, England, Bloomsbury London : 1989

Seller ID: A39373

ISBN-13: 9780394578750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. There is some light foxing to the top edge of the text block. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Scott Michael Bradfield (born 27 April 1955) is an American essayist, critic and fiction writer who resides in London, England. He has taught at the University of California, the University of Connecticut and Kingston University and has reviewed for The Times Literary Suppleme...
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A Confederate General from Big Sur

By: Brautigan, Richard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Grove Press, Inc. : 1964

Seller ID: A45760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Cover Art; True First Edition with no statement of printing on the copyright page and the price $3.95 on the dust jacket. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and mostly bright, but has toning and foxing to the white portions of the front panel and spine. There is some beginning nicking / tiny chip to the bottom front flap joint and the top spine end. . This is the author's first novel. "In the summer of 1961, while camping in southern Idaho w...
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The Secret Chord A Novel

By: Brooks, Geraldine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking : 2015

Seller ID: A41193

ISBN-13: 9780670025770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Brooks's first book, Nine Parts of Desire (1994) , based on her experiences among Muslim women in the Middle East, was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages. Foreign Correspondence (1997) , which won the Nita Kibble Literary Award for women's writing, was a memoir and travel adventure about a childhood enriched by penpals from around the world, and her adult quest to find them...
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T. Tembarom

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Company : 1913

Seller ID: A35562

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the accompanying dust jacket. First Edition, with published, October 1913 on the copyright page. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book and some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpaper includes a previous owner's inked gift notation. The edges of the text block has some ground-in dirt and a couple of noticeable spots of dripped dirt to the foredge. "The boys at the Brooklyn pu...
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Hopalong Cassidy and the Trail to Seven Pines

By: Burns, Tex (Pseudonym of Louis L'Amour)

Price: $375.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company : 1951

Seller ID: A34021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

This book is in Very Good+ to condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is one small rubbed and bumped spot to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some toning to the front endpapers and the top edge of the text block has foxing and toning. The dust jacket has some edge wear, nicking and rubbing, especially to the spine joints. There is some light sunning / fading to the spine of the dust jacket. And there is one smallish semi-closed edge tear to the bottom rear edge. The rear cov...
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Category: Modern Fiction First Editions