Fiction-General from Gargoyle Books

J. P. Lippincott Company, 1939. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Before he was a renowned screenwriter & member of the infamous Hollywood Ten for his alleged communist activities, Trumbo wrote a few novels. This was his third, which won the National Book Award. Strongly anti-war, it was also named "Most Original… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First American Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. VG-/Fair. A FIRST EDITION (American, preceding the first British by months), First Printing, with all correct points (black cloth, yellow/white/red lettering, $3.75 price to lower front DJ flap), One of the author's later works, maintaining all of his earlier satiric wit… Read more about this item

Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1911. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Stephens, Alice Barber. Timeless story about a single mother's love for her "brood" of children & how they survive despite the challenges of poverty, in 356 pages with hand-tinted frontispiece + 9 internal illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. A FIRST EDITION, first… Read more about this item

Bogota, Colombia: Editorial La Oveja Negra, 1984. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Short story satirizing corruption in Latin America. In Spanish. Orig. published in 1962, & in this softcover Columbian edition in 1978, this is the Eighth printing of that edition from 1984, in 155 pages. Mass Market paperback has decorative wrappers with author photo… Read more about this item

Bogota, Colombia: Editorial La Oveja Negra, 1980. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A novel on the "solitude of infinite power" of a Caribbean tyrant/dictator. In Spanish. Orig. published in 1975, & in this softcover edition in 1978, this is the Fourth Colombian Edition from July 1980, in 262 pages. Mass Market paperback has decorative wrappers… Read more about this item

Bogota, Colombia: Editorial La Oveja Negra, 1984. 5th or later Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Orig. published in 1972, & in this softcover edition in Colombia in 1979, this is the seventh edition from Mar. 1984, in 118 pages. Mass Market paperback has decorative wrappers with author photo to back cover. Condition is Near Fine: just… Read more about this item

Nan A. Talese, 2019. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/As New. The sequel to the author's "The Handmaid's Tale,'' 419 pages, with particularly chilling warnings for society's poised on the brink of totalitarianism. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 2019, this hardcover small quarto has navy blue cloth-covered boards ruled & lettered in bright silver to… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2004. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the masterful author of "Fight Club,' this is his first collection of nonfiction essays & journalistic pieces, including reflections on Marilyn Manson, tarot cards, live sex shows, American castles, steroids, father loss, Juliette Lewis, Brad Pitt, demolition derbies, & more slices of… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2002. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author of "Fight Club" returns with a devilish tale of a lullaby or culling song that parents are singing to their children & unwittingly killing them in a variation of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 2002, this… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition, 2nd Printing 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. Arnold, A. F.. Author's first book states right out that "this is not a nice book, but a fine & courageous one,'' which tells the horrific tale of Stanton Carlisle, circus performer, mentalist, & eventually geek, who "worked his way down… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Bantam, 1989. Paperback Original (PBO) . Soft cover. Very Good. Lot of 5 early forays into romance novels by the writer who would become much better known for her acclaimed mysteries. All are from the "Loveswept" series, all FIRST EDITIONs, First Printings, published 1989-1992, as well as Paperback Originals (PBOs) never published in hardcover.… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Author's third novel, once again an expose of the dark & seedy underside of the film & television industries & "the sordid deals in which love & sex are coldly bartered." A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, fro 1969, this… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First novel by the celebrated playwright, set on the small island of Samola in the South Pacific during the era of British colonial rule as its inhabitants prepare for a visit by Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip. A FIRST AMERICAN… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2002. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Sophomore effort from the author of the highly lauded first novel, "The Secret History," written a full decade after that first success. 555 pages. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, this hardcover octavo has black paper over boards, stamped in silver… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday Anchor, 1957. First Thus . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Gorey, Edward. Scarce Anchor title & another in the series that the late Edward Gorey did for this publisher, here doing both the cover art & typography! A must for Gorey completists! 1912, this is the first Anchor mass market paperback edition… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Author's first book, which "marks the stunning debut of the first voice of a new generation," "this decade's Catcher in the Rye." Written when he was a 20-year-old college student at Bennington, he would become a key member of the… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992. First Edition Later Printing 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A FIRST EDITION, Third Printing, from 1992 of the author's first novel, now widely credited as initiating the "dark academia" genre in contemporary fiction. 522 pages. Hardcover octavo has black & gray paper over boards, title box to… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Book Find Club/Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Author's first novel, in which he starkly addresses the complexity of racial & ethnic relations & the fear of the "other" in an urban setting. "Could very well be to the virus of American anti-semitism what "Uncle Tom's Cabin' was to… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House, Inc., 1947. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. VG-/G+/Good. Author's second book, a novel set in the world of prize fighting. Basis for the 1956 movie starring Humphrey Bogart & Rod Steiger. A true FIRST EDITION, First Printing (with statement) from 1947, this hardcover small octavo has black cloth-over-boards with… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Signet, 1958. First Mass Market Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good+. Collection of 7 short stories. Orig. published in hardcover in 1956, this is the First Printing of the FIRST MASS MARKET PAPERBACK EDITION from Signet (#S1535) from June 1958. In 143 pages, it is in VG+ condition: very clean & bright,… Read more about this item