Fiction from Book Happy Booksellers

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in DJ; First Edition; 358pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine/Near Fine condition. Novel about a small town in upstate New York experiencing tensions between locals and newcomers.

Lulu.com, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 176pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Novel "juggles AIDS activism, corporate and individual greed, all through the travails of a bike messenger in search of love and belonging.

New York: Kensington Books, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Hardcover in DJ; First Edition; 289pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/VG+ condition. Signed by Author. Funny, bittersweet debut novel about a gay couple's romance and trial separation, told through emails.

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. Softcover. Very Good. 249pp; Covers clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Praised as Highsmith's "finest novel," and first published in 1969, the story of an American writer who experiences sticky moral and ethical situations in Tunisia.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 394pp; DJ clean & slightly age-toned, boards square & bright with minor staining to top edge, pages age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Stunning survey of Thompson's writing beginning with the earliest magazine work of the 1920s and ending with his last… Read more about this item

Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; First Edition; 166pp; DJ clean & bright with crease to rear flap, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine/VG condition. From DJ flap: "A mystery of both memory and mistaken identity, UnderSurface is a starkly written, haunting novel about double lives,… Read more about this item

New York: Kensington Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in DJ; 276pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine/Fine condition. From DJ flap: "Set in the outrageous world of daytime soaps, where amnesia victims usually have evil twins--but handsome leading men must keep their love for each other in… Read more about this item

1st Books, 2001. Softcover. Very Good+. 248pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Signed by Author. "Take your class who-dunnit and throw in a unique friendship between two San Francisco boys as they run the gay gamut. See if you can figure out who shot Sparkle as his best friend, Secret, recounts the stories of… Read more about this item

New York: Alyson Books, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 357pp; Covers edgeworn & dampstained, some pages dampstained, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good condition. Signed by Author. Author's first novel, about the struggles of a budding, gay pop star.

BookSurge Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 380pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Signed by Author. Gay romance. The author's first novel.

Beverly Hills, CA: L. T. Publications, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 237pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Tells the highly erotic story of two men, one a handsome young actor on his way to stardom; the other a loser whose obsessive attraction turns him into a vicious, merciless… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Wildcat Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth in DJ; 307pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine/Near Fine condition. Signed by Author. Third novel in the Front Runner series, sequel to Harlan's Race and The Front Runner, a popular gay love story.

San Francisco, CA: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 223pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Signed by Author. Gay fiction, inhabiting the boundaries between fiction, autobiography and truth, moving from mid-nineties Boston to post-grunge Seattle, to Giuliani's New York, about searching for home and not necessarily finding it.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 372pp; No DJ, purple cloth boards with black titling to front & spine, boards slightly faded, slight wear to base of spine, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Vintage adventure novel with a swift, engaging and suspenseful plot, involving intrigue and hidden fortunes.

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 420pp; No DJ, maroon cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards square, clean & bright, a few pages bumped at corner, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Vintage novel about the life and adventures of a turnip farmer in Iowa. With illustrations by N.… Read more about this item

New York: Crooked Lane Books, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in DJ; 264pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine/Fine condition. Creepy contemporary novel set in Portland, Oregon.

Sarasota, FL: Florida Literary Foundation and STARbooks Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 320pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine condition. Startling novel about a youth's sexual awakening.

Austin, TX: Banned Books, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 152pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Gay novel set in Thailand in the late 1960s.

Stamford, CT: Knights Press, 1990. Softcover. Very Good. 562pp; Covers clean & bright, minor foxing to fore-edge, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Signed by Author. Gay bodybuilding novel set in San Francisco in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Cloth in DJ; 347pp; DJ edgeworn with chipping & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned with minor creasing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG/Good condition. From DJ flap: "A story of the sea and the fur trade in the old Northwest." Published… Read more about this item