Search Results: LITERATURE & FICTION from Odyssey Books

Martin Brian & O'Keefe, 1975. 1st Edition - Stated. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 425 pp., black buckram bdg. with gilt-stamped spine. "The writing in this novel is of a rare poetic distinction. The author's view of life and human relationships will strike some readers like a bucket of cold water on a frosty day.I should like everybody to read this extraordinary story. It is the work of a mster." John Broderick, for Hibernia. DJ(price clipped otherwise FINE)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

The Viking Press, 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 159 pp., elephant grey cloth bdg. with cadmium red-stamped titling on front board & spine, tec. (very slight shelf wear, very slight yellowing of paper edges, pristine copy)DJ(slightly faded spine, very slight shelf wear to edges, slightly soiled, unclipped)VG+Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Random House, 1973. 1st Edition Stated. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s)I. Signed by Author(s) Type: Book Signed by Author 212 pp., black spine with red paper covered boards bdg. with blind-stamped front board and silver-stamped spine. Signed by author with both pseudonym and real name on front end paper. FINE book in FINE price clipped DJ.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

American Mercury Publications/Lawrence E. Spivak, 1947. 1st Thus. Soft cover. VG+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 127 pp., illus. cartonage bdg. with black titling on front board and white on forest green spine. One of a series of books by this publisher that were chosen and introduced by Ellery Queen, the present being a collection of 6 detective/mystery stories. In VG+ near FINE condition (very slightly yellowed paper edges, barely shelf worn) In a custom-made high gauge mylar DJ. Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 611 pp., red cloth spine and black cloth boards with black-stamped spine. Singer's novel takes one into the vanished world of the Eastern European Jews in the early part of the 20th century and ends just as German troops invade Poland. (slightly scuffed edges spine and corners, slightly yellowed edges paper, very clean copy)DJ(scuffed edges with few tiny chips at spine & corners, slightly yellowed and faded spine) Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

London - Boston: Chatto & Windus, Picadilly, 1896. 1st Ed. Sole Authorized English . Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 314 pp. + 32 pp. adverts. at rear, black cloth bdg. with red and green floral design stamped on front board and spine, titling gilt-stamped on spine, decorative end papers.(scuffed edges spine and corners of boards, ex-libris small paper laberl bottom inner front board, paper slightly yellowed at edges, otherwise a very clean and tight copy) In a custom-made high gauge mylar DJ.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Green Bay Publications, 1986. 1st Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s)I. Signed by Author(s) Type: Book Signed by Author 63 pp. Glazed paper cover. Illustrated with 5 black and white phototypes in text.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936. 1st Ed. Sole Authorized English . Cloth. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 121 pp. with adverts., burnt orange cloth bdg. with black Indian head on front board and black titling on spine, tec. " The way of life, the beliefs and culture of the original people of this continent preserved for posterity by America's greatest authority on the Red man." (slightly scuffed edges spine, bdg. lightly soiled, pages slightly tellowed at edges, otherwise very clean and tight copy) In a custom-made high gauge mylar DJ.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

George Book Publishing Co, 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 347 pp. (with advert.), prussian blue cloth bdg. with midnight blue, pale grey, kelly green design stamped on front board being an repeat of the frontispice illustration, midnight blue-stamped spine. Tissue-guarded b/w frontispice illus. on half-gloss paper plate. Early example of 'science fiction' literature, a futurist novel set in the 22nd century advocating equal distributing of money to citizens based on the nation's wealth. After revolutions spread worldwide, people have adapted to profound changes, for example the elimination of cities, due mainly to solving transportation problems. A suitably late progressive Victorian vision of the future, Merrill obviously shared self-taught historian Henry Thomas Buckle's positivist 'trial & error' philosophy of progress but also mixes in Libertarian and Socialist ideas. (scuffed and… Read More

Jonathan Cape, 1980. 1st Edition - Stated. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 195 pp., forestgreen buckram bdg. with gilt-stamped spine. A FINE unread copy. VG+ DJ price clipped but otherwise pristine. Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Macmillan of Canada, 1988. 1st Edition. Buckram. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dedicated and Signed By AuthorI. Dedicated and Signed By Author Type: Book Dedicated and Signed By Author 472 pp. black buckram bdg. with yellow-stamped spine. Dedicated and signed on title page by Davies: "Robertson Davies for Phillips (Edward) cofion goran".Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Picador/Pan Books, 1992. 1st Edition - Stated. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 197 pp., forest green cloth bdg. with silver-stamped spine. Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

T.Nelson And Sons, Paternoster Row, 1880. 1st Edition ?. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 344 pp. forest green bdg. with black & gilt-stamped front board & spine, blind-stamped back board, bevelled board-edges. Illus. with 5 engravings. VG(scuffed at edges & corners, dedication on front end paper, yellowed paper.)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Methuen & Co, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 428 pp., coral cloth bdg. with gilt-stamped spine. (spine slightly faded, small inscription top front end paper, otherwise clean tight copy)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. 1st Edition Stated. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 458 pp., ilus. paper covered hardback bdg. with titling printed on high gauge mylar DJ.Second novel by Dale Peck:"Astonishing.If this fiercely written novel offers an indelible portrait of gay life during the plague years, it also opens out to become a universal story about love and loss and the redemptive powers of fiction." Michiko Kakutani - New York Times. AS NEW copy with FINE DJ. Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Book 245 pp., nut brown spine and beige boards paper covered hard bdg. with blind-stamped front board and gilt-stamped spine. A haunting, prize-winning Latin American novel about a guilt-wracked mother and her inquisitive daughter, both coming to terms with an unspeakable past. Ms Sagastizabal won Argentina's Premio La Nacion Prize.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Douglas & McIntyre, 2009. 1st Paperback Ed. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s)I. Signed by Author(s) Type: Book Signed by Author 216 pp., illus. cartonage bdg. with red titling on front board and white on spine. Stunningly beautiful novel that won the author, Johanna Skibsrud the 2010 Giller literary prize. Signed by author on title page.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Faber & Faber, 1992. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 343 pp., black buckram bdg with silver-stamped spine. (light shelf wear, paper lightly yellowed)DJ(scuffed edges with tiny chips bottom edge spine and corners)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Longman Drumbeat/Longman Group Limited, 1980. 2nd Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 96 pp. + 8 pp. adverts, illus. glossy cartonage bdg. with white & black titling on front board & spine. The spoken words of the African Griots that brings to life the deeds and exploits of giants of the past: this is the story of Sundiata, who had the strenght of ten. (slightly scuffed edges, paper slightly yellowed, very clean and tight book)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 149 pp., blsck cloth with white-stamped titling on front board & spine. A collection of brief literary sketches with illustrations as tail pieces, one in text b/w drawing, 3 bichrome plates and one b/w plate. (lightly scuffed edges spine & corners, loss of white colour on spine titling, paper slightly yellowed at edges, very clean tight copy)DJ(chipped at edges spine and corners, stained front and back, spine & edges slightly browned) Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.