Search Results: First Novel from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Pompano Beach: Exposition Press of Florida, 1987 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly on ffep by author. 185pp. burgundy cloth 8vo: Fine in a near Fine dj in poly cover [gilt spine titles are slightly faded; ink name ffep; else a nice crisp copy] A Florida poet's first novel.

Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia: McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1984 1st ed. thus. 102pp. paperback: near Very Good [tiny foxing to top & fore edges; very short rem. line bottom edge; else a nice clean and crisp copy]

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2002 1st ed. 191pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [hint of foxing top edge; else a nice crisp copy] A grown-up fairy tale, the Belgium-born author’s first novel to be published in English. She translated Charles Frazier’s "Cold Mountain."

Alan Sutton/Guernsey Press, 1987, 1989. 261pp., 263pp. paperbacks: Very Good [Bedlam is in near Fine condition with some light age browning of text; Task Force is near Very Good with a spine crease and some age browning of text; all in all, two nice copies] Two comic novels, the second a sequel, about a hostile British government's attempts to abolish the ancient status of the Channel Islands by incorporating them into the County of Hampshire. An amusing cast of retired military buffers and their wives informed by the pseudonymous author's long experience of high command in both the RAF and as the Queen's Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, his birthplace. Sir Peter de Lacey Cheminant (1920-2018) who served for 41 years in the RAF, adopted the pseudonym for these novels.

Biscuette Books. 2019. INSCRIBED by author on title p. & signed "James." 294pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1988 1st ed. 256pp. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a near Fine dj [bit of age darkening to top & fore edges; else nrF] A savage satire of small town Scotland in the 1980s. Colorful cartoon jacket illustration by Graham Thompson (who drew those Tom Sharpe covers).

Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, 1994 advance uncorrected galley proof. 192pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1987 advance copy.  146pp. paper 12mo: near Fine [paper cover label is slightly age darkened; else nrF] An advance copy bound in publishing signatures w/paper label. Praise from the late Walker Percy: "The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heartwrenching novel." And from Eudora Welty: "A stunning new writer." Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters." One of Callil and Toibin’s 200 best novels in English since 1950.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly ffep by author. 314pp. cloth 8vo: Good/no dj [age darkening; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A first novel based on Wirt Williams’s (1921-86) World War II service as an officer aboard a U. S. Navy destroyer on anti-submarine patrol in the Atlantic.

New York: Harper & Row. 1980 1st ed. 212pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Fine dj in poly cover [top corners are bumped; else VG+]

Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly on dedication p. & signed "Corinne." 232pp. paperback 8vo: Good+ [bottom cover corner and bottom corners of about the first third of the book are all thumbed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A first novel about Italian art.

Novato, CA: Lyford Books/Presidio, 1993 1st ed. 360pp. black cloth sm 4to: Very Good+ in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some foxing of edges; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A novel in the mode of George MacDonald Fraser in which a wannabe American Harry Flashman fights in the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Rebellion and associates with Teddy Roosevelt and Black Jack Pershing.

New York: Warner Books, 2005 1st ed. SIGNED boldly on title p. by author. 275pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [text is age browned owing to publisher's paper quality; couple of ink dots from author's pen; else a very nice crisp copy] The author's first novel.

New York: Knopf, 2001 1st ed. SIGNED boldly on title p. by author. 288pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [prev. owner’s name in felt tip on ffep; hint of age darkening to top edge; else a nice crisp copy] A first novel featuring "quintessential New York characters and their issues" by a native New Yorker.

Atlanta: ngpress, 2003 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author and signed "Barbara." 395pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good [covers are lightly thumbed @ bottom corners; light foxing of edges; else a nice clean, complete & crisp copy] A first mystery novel featuring an Atlanta homicide detective "Wes T. Wesley." A promotional postcard replicating the book's cover design (a photo of Georgia Tech's old Administration Building) is laid in.

New York: Random House, 1983 1st ed. 136pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [slight age darkening to top and fore edges and endpp; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A hard bound first edition of Southern writer Shivers's (1929-2014) first novel.

London: Futura, 1984 reprint. 190pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Sackville-West's (1892-1962) first novel, originally published in 1919.

West Palm Beach, FL: Avant Press (privately issued), 1976 1st ed. INSCRIBED by author on front flyleaf. 183pp. black cloth 8vo: Very Good/no dj [some shelf scuffs on back cover; else VG] A self-published first novel begun in the 1940s and finally finished in 1975.

New York: Putnam's, 1994 2nd ptg. SIGNED on title p. by author. 254pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of tiny foxing top edge; else a very nice crisp copy] A first novel set amidst a large Irish-American family. Advance jacket praise from Doris Grumbach and Richard Selzer.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969 1st Am. ed. 283pp. hardback 8vo: ex lib. copy; dj is tipped down in poly cover public lib. style w/usual markings from a deletion; else a clean, complete & tight copy. A novel about Anglo-American pilots in China in the 1920s by a former RAF pilot who actually flew some of these old aircraft himself.