Search Results: Fiction from Charles Agvent

New York: Random House, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A reissue of Irving's first three novels, all of which were out of print at the time.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to top bulked text edge. Near Fine in a bright, Fine dustwrapper. Author's first novel and second book, published when she was 27. An examination of motherhood.

New York: Pantheon Books, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A novella and stories by this critically acclaimed author.

New York: The Viking Press, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to bulked edges of the text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with two short closed tears and a crease on the front. Author's third book and the second book in the Albany Cycle.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine ina Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED and dated July 1994 by Norman on the title page.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing to the spine tips. A ghost story, and more.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1952). First Edition. Hardcover. Small owner name on front endpaper, rubbing to spine gilt. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Her third book. Probable first issue dustwrapper with a synopsis of the book instead of blurbs on the front flap which is price-clipped.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1960). First Edition. Cloth. Top edge a little dusty. Near Fine in a rubbed, Near Fine dustwrapper. Hoagland's second book, a novel. Two different paper stocks were used in the production of this book; consequently, variation of the shading of the signatures is apparent when looking at the edges of the book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's first novel about a Kentucky family transplanted to the Sunbelt.

New York: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, (1991). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. The 50th Anniversary Edition of Welty's first collection of stories. First published in 1941, this is the first printing of the book as an HBJ Modern Classic.

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Number Two of the Woburn Books, a short story. Copy #24 of 530 copies SIGNED by the author.

New York: Viking, (1990). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with typical light edgewear and rubbing and some staining internally. Increasingly scarce second book.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder stripe on the bottom edge. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. National Book Award winner.

New York: Harper & Row, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with two small closed tears at rear. Brad Holland. Author's second book. Drawings by Brad Holland.

New York: Delacorte Press, (1978). First Edition. hardcover. Slight dust soiling to top bulked edge. Just about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. NOT the rather common Book Club edition which also states "First Printing."

New York: The Viking Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustspotting to top bulked edge and slight foxing to endpapers. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with trivial wear to the head of the spine. Cloth-backed boards. Boyle's second collection of stories.

New York: Random House, (1988). First Edition. Wraps. Light soiling to the rear. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof in yellow wraps with the publisher's slip taped to the front cover of Exley's last book.

New York: Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. This is a Fine copy in an intact dustwrapper that has a small external tape repair to the front panel and a slightly longer internal tape repair. There is also the shadow of a tape removal, again short, to the rear and slightly longer internally. An attractive copy overall. Kennedy's second book and the first volume of the Albany Cycle.

New York/Boston: J. C. Derby/Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Head of spine chipped, some marginal dampstaining. Good+. Original brown cloth. BAL 17540: State 1, Imprint A. Wright II #2208. Illustrated with 8 plates & text engravings. A collection of comic pieces including a brief chapter on Daguerrotypes. In 1851, Shillaber became the founding editor of the The Carpet-Bag, one of the country's first comic publications. An 1852 issue ran a short article titled "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" by a 16-year old Samuel L. Clemens.