Search Results: Fiction from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Off-white boards, natural linen spine with gilt titles, [ix], 229, [1] pp. Bottom corner bumped, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, foil titles on spine, x, 362 pp. Top edge browned, slight shelf wear. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . VG+/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Daly Bilu. Sage green cloth, [v], 270, [5] pp. Top edge of cloth faded, else as new. DJ slightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, rear panel lightly soiled; in Brodart archival cover. "The secure world of a well-established and apparently well-assimilated Jewish writer, in an Austrian town before World War II, falls to pieces under the force of political and social realities which daily sanctify the old Austrian anti-Semitism. We learn what we learn through Bruno, the thirteen-year-old son of the family, whose spare and uninflected accounts of illness, forced hilarity, ruined railway journeys, conversions, and doomed strategies of accomodation disclose the slow onset of disaster." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition in English. . Fine/Near Fine. 20 X 13 cm.

New York: Random House, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Goldenrod cloth, copper titles on spine and decoration on front board, endpaper maps, [xi], 868 pp., b & w maps & headpieces. Top edges of boards lightly rubbed, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Historical novel combines Michener's imagination & storytelling powers with his usual careful research into his setting. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter dark blue paper with light blue paper-covered boards, dark blue endpapers, [vi], 275, [6] pp. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . New/New. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, xvi, 544 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Paleontologist discovers a living "missing link." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: The Dial Press, Inc, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, facsimile signature in silver on front board, dark blue endpapers, [xiii], 270, [1] pp. DJ rubbed, with a few ½ cm tears; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). 3rd ptg. . Fine/Very Good. 21½ X 14½ cm.

London: The Folio Society, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beautifully printed & bound in nutmeg & burgundy cloth with gilt & red titles & decorations to a design by Malcolm Harvey Young, xvii, 436 pp, 16 ff b & w drawings. Twenty-eight short stories by well-known American authors from Washington Irving to John Steinbeck. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . Fine/No dj. Illus. by Paul Gulla. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Three volumes bound in dark blue ribbed cloth with gilt titles on spine and blind device on front board; condition-- a few small spots to boards, otherwise fine. Flaggs: [vii], 403 pp. Everything: [vii] 332 pp. Runaway: [vii], 344 pp. Ships as one volume. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). Reprint. . VG+/No dj. 19½ X 13 cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth with tan paper-covered boards, 300 pp. Spine faded and ends turned in, slight edge wear. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Trade. . Very Good/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards, natural linen spine with copper foil titles, 255 pp. Slight shelf wear. DJ slightly soiled; in Brodart archival cover. Novel set in a small town in Texas during the Great Depression. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . Near Fine/VG+. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige boards with black decoration, black cloth spine with foil titles, endpaper maps, ix, 798 pp. Lightly rubbed & soiled. DJ has a surface scratch to rear panel, otherwise fine; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 12 oz.). First Edition. . VG+/VG+. 24 X 16½ cm.

London: Fourth Estate, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Deep purple boards, red titles on spine, goldenrod endpapers, [v], 202 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. First edition of author's first book. Rhodes has received the 2003 Authors' Club First Novel Award for Timoleon Vieta Come Home, which was also shortlisted for the 2004 Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Granta has called Rhodes one of Britain's best young novelists. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 19½ X 14 cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter dark blue cloth with dark blue paper-covered boards, red endpapers, 382 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Novel about the life and times of Billy the Kid. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1945 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, publisher's device in blue on front board, [viii], 268 pp. Tail of spine rolled, a few very faint marks to boards, bookplate on front paste-down. DJ browning, lightly rubbed, with a bit of edge wear and a small hole in front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Novel of one family's life in Nazi-occupied Greece. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). . Near Fine/Very Good. 21 X 13 cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full putty cloth, black titles & decoration on spine, printed paper decoration tipped onto front board, top edge dyed red, [vii], 339 pp. Spine & hinges browned, corner of tipped-on front board decoration chipped, rubber stamp on ffep identifies this volume as a gift to the Victory Book Campaign. Novel of a year in the lives of a Maine farm family. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG-/No dj. 20½ X 14 cm.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange cloth with gilt initials on front board, top edge dyed black, maps on endpapers, [xiii], 622 pp. Spine ends turning in, slight rubbing and fading along top and bottom edges. Price-clipped DJ has 2 small tears at top of rear panel, and some edge wear, particularly at corners and front joint; in Brodart archival cover. "...the novel describes the Russian offensive into East Prussia, which resulted in the encirclement and defeat of General Samsonov's Second Army by Hindenburg. This disaster revealed the dry rot at the core of Tsarism and hastened its downfall." Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 24 X 15½ cm.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in pictorial card covers with white titles on black spine, [ii], 189 pp, 46 b & w illustrations. Extremities rubbed. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. Illus. by Maurice Grieffenhagen. 23½ X 16½ cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, foil titles on spine & decoration on front board, 186 pp. DJ spine slightly browned; in Brodart archival cover. "Musical comedy without the music," is how P. G. Wodehouse described his own style of writing decades before this novel was written, but the description still applies to this late work. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21 X 14½ cm.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Stiff yellow wrappers, 125, [1] pp, 4 full-page illustrations. First 30 pages lightly creased near gutter, corners very lightly worn. Five "long short stories" originally published in magazines 1979-1983. Shipping weight 1 lb.. 2nd ptg. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. Illus. by R. W. Scholes. 21½ X 14 cm.