Fiction Novels from Browsing Is Arousing

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Will James. Hardcover, black cloth with gilt titles on spine, color illustrated on cover pastedown, 263 pages, 6 color and 8 b&w plates by Will James. Previous owner's inscription on front endpapers. Otherwise clean copy. Record # 385799

London: Picador, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This signed first edition of author and journalist Sid Smith's novel 'Something Like A House' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, following a British soldier who deserts to China during the Korean War and stays there… Read more about this item

NY: Ward & Drummond, 1890. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Helen Strong. Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt, 418 pages, 6 b&w plates by Helen Strong. Mild rubbing, edgewear to covers. A novel extolling the temperace movement. Clean copy. Record # 385780

Saint Paul MN: Graywolf Press, 2008. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 245 pages. This is Petterson's third novel, first published in Norway in 1996 and translated into English, by Anne Born, two years later. A girl reminisces about growing up in Nazi-occupied Norway and forming a bond with her brother, active… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, 309 pages, plus two pages of publisher's advertisement in rear, dark green cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing on endpaper, spine lightly cocked, minor corner and edge wear. Binding cracked on front and rear fly leaf, but all pages intact. Overall, clean and tight copy with bright… Read more about this item

NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PROSE on the title page. The au pair for the Porter family, Haitian-born Simone, becomes witness to the family's casual cruelty, observing the activities of Rosemary, a sculptor, her philandering husband, her mercurial friends, and her strange children. Bright,… Read more about this item

NY: Limited Editions CLub, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Lynton Lamb. Hardcover, bound in forest-green cloth, spine stamped in gilt with printed label attached. Introduction by Norman H. Strouse with color and b&w illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Copy #794 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Wells felt that this was his best novel. Very good… Read more about this item

NY: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Charles Raymond.. Hardcover, beige buckram and boards covered in dark blue paper. Copy #794 of 1500 designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press and illustrated with 15 wash drawings in color by Charles Raymond. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Dickens' tenth novel, unusual from… Read more about this item

Saint Paul MN: Graywolf Press, 2007. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 258 pages. Translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born This novel about a Norwegian retiree reflecting on incidents from his youth was an international success, received several awards and was named a Best Book of 2007 by the New York… Read more about this item

Saint Paul MN: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages. Clean copy. Record # 385808

Berkeley CA: Counterpoint, 2014. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 161 pages. An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope… Read more about this item

New York: Broadway Books, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 347 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Slight foxing to top edge, else a very nice copy in brodart cover. Record # 385797

Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 237 pages. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Gilt decoration and title on front and back covers. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Record # 608587

Champaign IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010. 1st US. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 201 pages. Slovenian novel. In an unnamed city shrouded in mist, Valent Kosmina is a retiree living quietly yet discontentedly with his doped-up, TV-addicted wife. To escape the claustrophobia of home and city, he masquerades as a man of means and takes to spending his… Read more about this item

London: Secker and Warburg, 1952. 1st UK. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 206 pages. Author's 1st book of fiction, and 2nd under his name. Rear of dust jacket with water stain - book unaffected. Publisher's stamp on front flyleaf stating "Showroom Sample." Clean, tight copy. Record # 608631

London: Faber & Faber, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. 161 pages, black cloth, book slightly cocked. Dust jacket edgeworn with light chipping. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS ( "Joyce and Irving, with love, Wilson & Margaret 1990") on the title page to Joyce and Irving Adler. The book is heavily annotated and underlined in both ink and light pencil by Joyce… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 350 numbered hardcover copies, signed by Paul Bowles [# 78]. . A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES (on limitation page). Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered… Read more about this item

London : Jonathan Cape, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Kavanagh is actually Julian Barnes. Wrinkle to lamination on dust jacket cover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 301620

NY: Harper & Row, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 161 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464892

NY: Knopf, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 208 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Yellow cloth with purple top edge stain. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464882