Fiction from Books of the World

A Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- November 1966
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$49.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: Random House, November 1966. Hardcover in a robust paper-covered cardboard slipcase with portrait of the protagonists pasted on front. First Trade Edition in solo book form (no additional printings listed). Quarter-bound in teal cloth with beige sidepapers and gilt lettering and decoration. Ocher endpapers. Near Fine book in a Very Good case. Interior pristine. Spine straight. A few… Read more Item Price
$49.95

The Hobbit or There and Back Again (Revised Edition)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Published
- February 1966
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0345248260
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$13.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: Ballantine Books, February 1966. Mass market paperback. Revised Edition. Fifty-seventh printing, November 1975. SBN 345-24826-0-175. Cover painting, Biblo comes to the Huts of the Raftelves, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Very Good. Unmarked. Interior unmarked. Spine creased. Light dog-ear to front cover. Reading and light edgewear to covers. Light adhesion wear to rear cover. 287 pages. Item Price
$13.95

The Harafish
by Naguib Mahfouz; Naguib Mahfuz; Najib Mahfouz; Najib Mahfuz; Najīb Maḥfūẓ; Catherine Cobham (trans)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- April 1995
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385423357
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$14.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: Anchor Books, April 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight dogear to top front corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 406 pages.
An epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family: a family that moves, over many generations, from the height… Read more Item Price
$14.95

Girls at War and Other Stories
by Chinua Achebe
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- March 1974
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 038500852X
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$29.95
Show Details
Description:
Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Premier, March 1974. Mass Market Paperback. No additional printings listed. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light shelf and reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 128 pages. Contents: The Madman; The Voter; Marriage is a Private Affair; Akueke; Chike's School Days; The Sacrificial Egg; Vengeful Creditor; Dead Men's… Read more Item Price
$29.95

Heidi (Young Readers' Classics) (Abridged)
by Johanna Spyri; Barbara Greenwood
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 1994
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1550135503
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$13.95
Show Details
Description:
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition Thus / full number line. Fine book in pictorial covers / no jacket. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 94 pages. Profusely illustrated glossy hardcover. Abridged version for younger readers. An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the… Read more Item Price
$13.95

The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (Signed, Limited Edition in Slipcase)
by Faith Jaques; Zena Sutherland
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Signed Limited Edition
- Published
- September 1990
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1852132736
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$79.95
Show Details
Description:
London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near… Read more Item Price
$79.95

Sherlock Holmes Compendium
by Peter Haining
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- January 1981
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0890094063
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$10.90
Show Details
Description:
Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle Books, January 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Gift inscription to FFEP. quarter-inch tear to bottom edge of front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 216 pages. Profusely illustrated. Item Price
$10.90

The Paris Review, Fall-Winter 1978, Volume 20, Number 74
by George A. Plimpton (ed); Peter Matthiessen (ed); Donald Hall (ed); Robert B. Silvers (ed); Blair Fuller (ed); and Maxine Groffsky (ed); Joan Didion; Margaret Drabble; Joyce Carol Oates; Alexander Theroux; Lawrence Kearney; Thomas Lux; Derek Walcott; Rober
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- Fall-Winter 1978
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$29.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: The Paris Review, Fall-Winter 1978. Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light reading wear to corners. Not from a library. 234 pages. Item Price
$29.95

Hamlet (The New Shakespeare, CAM 474)
by William Shakespeare; John Dover Wilson (ed)
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Published
- March 1968
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0521094747
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$8.65
Show Details
Description:
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, March 1968. Paperback. Good. Notes and underlining. Spine faded and lightly creased. Covers clean. Not from a library. c + 310 pages. Contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary. Item Price
$8.65

A Shakespeare Anthology : Selections from the Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, Songs and Sonnets, with an Introduction by G. F. Maine (Collins Greetings Books)
by William Shakespeare
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birth
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Hardcover in Slipcase
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$39.95
Show Details
Description:
London & Glasgow: Collins, 1964. Hardcover. Green faux leather over boards with silver titles to front and spine; decorative slipcase with windows revealing titles. Special Edition for 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birth. Very Good. Gift inscription to FFEP. Text pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean and bright. Light soiling to top edge of slipcase. 160 pages. Item Price
$39.95

Three Plays : La Cantatrice Chauve, La Lecon, Les Chaises ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by Eugene Ionesco; H. F. Brookes (ed); C. E. Fraenkel (ed)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1965
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$13.95
Show Details
Description:
London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1965. Hardcover. Third printing, 1967. Very Good. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Light soiling to covers. 165 pages. Editorial material in English; plays in French. Item Price
$13.95

The Fox
by Frederick Forsyth
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- October 2018
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525538429
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$14.85
Show Details
Description:
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, October 2018. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine tail lightly bumped. Light rubbing to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 286 pages. Item Price
$14.85

Noir: A Novel
by Christopher Moore
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2018
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0062433970
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$24.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: HarperCollins / William Morrow, 2018. Hardcover. First edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 357 pages. San Francisco. Summer, 1947. A dame walks into a saloon.... Think Raymond Chandler meets Damon Runyon with more than… Read more Item Price
$24.95

Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble (Bad Kitty Series, 7)
by Nick Bruel
- Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- January 2014
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1596436719
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$12.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: Roaring Brook Press/Neal Porter, January 2014. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 128 pages.
In this seventh installment of the Bad Kitty series, Kitty encounters what may be her most formidable foe yet: her creator! Kitty soon learns that feline manipulation works both ways-especially… Read more Item Price
$12.95

The Power of the Dog
by Jane Campion
- Condition
- As New
- Jacket condition
- As New
- Published
- December 2021
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1649800533
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$129.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: Assouline, December 2021. Hardcover. Pictorial linen over boards in a thick luxury slipcase. As New book in an As New slipcase. Pristine inside and out. 304 pages, 280 color illustrations. 12.3 x 10.6 x 2.3 inches. 6.8 pounds. Heavy item: extra charges for expedited or international shipping.
Lavishly illustrated coffee-table book that accompanies Jane Campion's film… Read more Item Price
$129.00

The Boy's King Arthur; Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, edited for boys by Sidney Lanier; illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
by Thomas Malory; Sidney Lanier (ed)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Published
- 1947
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$39.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards with a full color pastedown of two knights fighting on the front cover and gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Nine color plates. Top edge dyed red. Very Good+ book with no jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and sound. Front cover clean and bright. Reading wear to corners and spine… Read more Item Price
$39.95

Pan the Piper & Other Marvelous Tales, by Anna Curtis Chandler ; with decorations and many illustrations from works of art and old manuscripts
by Anna Curtis Chandler
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1923
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$19.95
Show Details
Description:
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1923. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering and titles. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Spine end frayed and torn. Wear to edges and corners. Not from a library. xxvii + 234 pages. front., illus., plates.
Carefully crafted vintage book for children with stories accented with art and paintings. Contents: The… Read more Item Price
$19.95

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Illustrations by Gustave Doré
by Anonymous, Rudolf Erich Raspe
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1935
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$37.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: Illustrated Editions Company, [n.d.]. Hardcover. Quarter-bound in black cloth with gilt striping and lettering and orange cloth boards, beveled edges front and back. Orange end papers, deckle edge. Heavyweight paper. Numerous B&W illustrations by Gustave Dore. Very Good+ book with no jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Not from a library. No ownership markings. Slight… Read more Item Price
$37.95

Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress, by Daniel Defoe ; Illustrations by John Alan Maxwell; Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson
by Daniel Defoe
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Published
- 1931
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$14.45
Show Details
Description:
New York: The Bibliophilist Society, 1931. Hardcover. Illustrated end papers. Frontis and several plates. Very Good. Unmarked. Spine straight. Moderate wear and soiling to covers. Not from a library. xii + 322 pages. front. plates. Item Price
$14.45

Adventures in Time and Space : An Anthology of Science Fiction Stories
by Raymond J. Healy (ed); J. Francis McComas (ed); Robert A. Heinlein; John W. Campbell, Jr.; Don A. Stuart; Lester del Rey; P. Schuyler Miller; Henry Kuttner; C. L. Moore; Lewis Padgett; A. E. van Vogt; Eric Frank Russell; Raymond Z. Gallun; Milton A. Rothm
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Science Fiction Book Club Edition
- Published
- August91980
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$79.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: Random House, n.d. [August 1990, c. 1957]. Hardcover. Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Very Good / no jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean. Corners and spine ends bumped. Not from a library. xxiv + 1004 pages.
An anthology of science fiction stories originally published in 1946. Lester del Rey said it was the book… Read more Item Price
$79.95