St. Martin's Griffin, October 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place---and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit. Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old.....
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, December 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and.....
Marshall Jones Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. 223 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in decoratively embossed red cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on front cover and Dust jacket spine is tanned.
D. Appleton and Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 348 pages. 'This book is unusual in that it is a full length novel treating of negro life from the angle of humor. Its picture of a Negro character in his native southern environment is accurate and filled with laughable situations. Mister.....
W.J. Watt & Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 316 pages. Cover illustration and frontispiece by George W. Gage. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: To Burton Roscoe, Hamilton Thompson 3/15/23. With typed letter signed on letterhead of Fox Film Corporation, dated April 30, 1923, addressed to Edith Leighton.....
Little, Brown, and Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. 362 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in cloth covers. Ex-lib copy from Library Company of Philadelpia with their plate on front pastedown and call letters on label on spine. Gilt decorations and lettering on front cover and spine.....
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 302 pages. Illustrations by John Alonzo Williams. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in maroon cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Spine ends rolled. Edge and corner wear. In very good dust jacket with closed tears, edge.....
Western Junior Publishing Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. 194 pages. Appendix pp. 171-194 giving details of the Junior Order United American Mechanics (UAM) and the Daughters of America. The first volume of fiction issued 'by our joint interests'. Patriotic stories with anti-immigrant nationalist themes. First edition (first printing). A very.....
Europa Editions, September 2020. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A NEW YORK TIMES & NATIONAL BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020The Washington Post?O, The Oprah Magazine?TIME Magazine?NPR?People Magazine?The New York Times Critics?The Guardian?Electric Literature?Financial Times?Times UK?Irish Times?New York Post?Kirkus Reviews?Toronto Star?The Globe and Mail?Harper's Bazaar?Vogue.....
Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 145 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to a previous owner.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. Hardcover. 295 pages. Twenty-three short stories, never before collected. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago -- soon to be beaten at the entertainment game by the new.....
Vintage, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Berkley Trade, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up, to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old." Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us.....
Picador, October 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association From "New York Times" bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell.....
Harper Perennial, April 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned.....
Back Bay Books, May 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost.....
Virgin Pub, June 2004. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Bukowski's final novel is a slightly surreal pastiche of the classic Mickey Spillane, Chandleresque private dick novel. Nick Belane, is a lonely, middle-aged, egotistical, alcoholic private detective who is badly in need of some lucrative.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 1990. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An "irresistible" (Los Angeles Times) novel about the adventures of three men growing marijuana in Northern California All Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of Cannabis Sativa and half a million tax-free dollars will.....
Vintage, March 1989. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in.....
Bantam, April 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of.....
Harper Perennial, August 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). New York Times Bestseller National Bestseller: Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle (#1), Chicago Tribune (#1), Denver Post (#1), Minneapolis Star-Tribune (#1), Publishers Weekly Indie Next Bestseller (#1) Best Book.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1993. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection.....
Scribner, June 1999. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, "The Old Man and the Sea" has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing.....
Flatiron Books, May 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. A spellbinding reimagining of the story of Elektra, one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne. Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers.....