Search Results: Fiction. General from The Parnassus BookShop

USA: Vintage Books/Random House, 1995. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean, tight and unmarked. A piece is torn out of the first page-not a text page-on the lower right corner, otherwise quite a nice book. Cover is a little rubbed around the edges. An adventure and romance of conflicting cultures, set in Baja, California in the 1890's. 320 pages, 5 x 8 inches. 1995, Vintage Books/Random House, USA

New York: Stein and Day, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in GOOD Condition. No Dust Jacket. . Binding of tan half cloth with gilt titles, red boards, few very faint smudges on front but generally clean, both front corners are scuffed at the tips, edges rubbed. Tight and solid. Page block edges have some spots, some foxing. Pages are very clean and free from any markings, no creases. A novel about social welfare problems and issues, and death and dying. 180 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Stein and Day, NY 1972.

U.S.A: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1993. First Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Jacket. A story of the golden couple--talented, charming Richard, loved, hated, adored and Stella, loving, talented, beautiful--and perhaps the inevitable fall. The book is very clean in ivory half cloth, gilt titled, with white boards; clean and unmarked--spotless; lower edges rubbed, otherwise in fine condition. 244 pages. 1993, Alfred A Knopf Inc, USA

USA: Little, Brown and Co, 1988. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Ellen Gilchrist is the winner of the 1984 National Book Award for fiction. Cover illustration by Crouch Stanford and design by Steve Snider. Clean and unmarked with a slight crease on the lower corner. 277 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, MA, 1988.

USA: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1999. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Farrar Straus and Giroux Edition. First Published in 1998 by Viking UK. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Fine Condition. From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy. A tale of a family caught in the grip of the mysterious past, set in Newcastle, Great Britain. It is a powerful study of memory and of the ways in which the violent past can return to haunt and distort the present. 278 pages. 8.6 x 5.8 inches. 1999, Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, USA

USA: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Black wraps with white and red lettering is clean and unmarked, with a chip to the bottom front corner and that corner of the red first page, which is an advertisement page. Trace wear to spine head and heel. Soundly bound, square. Pages are very clean and free from any markings, no creases. The author's first work of fiction--a fun book, easy to read-- 'as if "Tom Jones" were about baseball and college life'. A warmhearted novel about ambition, family, friendship, love, commitment. 512 pages plus A Conversation with Chad Harbach and A Reading Group Guide. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Back Bay Books, USA 2012.

Elgin, Illinois, USA: Lion Publishing, 1994. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. The First Novel in the Mitford Series. Clean and unmarked pictorial wraps; pages clean and unmarked. Upper, outer quadrant of book has wavy pages. Delightful sketches at chapter headings. A cozy, neighborly read set in a delightful town--but life in a small town is rarely quiet and never boring. Father Tim, the bachelor rector and his dog the size of a sofa who has moved in and won't go away--and an attractive neighbor who is wearing a path through the hedge, throw in a jewel theft, a lovable but unloved boy--well, lots going on in Mitford! 446 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Lion Publishing. Elgin, Illinois.

New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1993. First Thus. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Touchstone Edition, 1993. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Thousand Acres" Bright, clean, unmarked cover with slight wear around edges. Internals are quite clean, lightly to moderately toned. A story of family strife and survival, a portrait of an American family, "a poignant recognition of ordinary lives that, of course, are not ordinary at all". 224 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 1993, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, New York.

USA: HarperCollins, 1997. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. Clean and unmarked card cover with slight rubbing all around edges, no spine creasing, hinge edges rubbed. Upper corner of rear cover creased. Text block edges clean, toned. Pages clean and free from any markings, toned. A story of Colorado rancher Atticus Cody who receives word that his wayward younger son, Scott, has committed suicide in Resurreccion, Mexico. When he travels south to recover Scott's body, he is puzzled by what he finds and suspects murder. A story of a father's steadfast and almost unfathomable love for his son. 247 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. HarperCollins, New York, 1997.

San Francisco, CA: Puffin Books/Penguin Books Publisher, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback As New. Cover with French flap. Clean, bright, tight, unmarked. Rough cut. From the Public Television series created by Kiernan Prendiville set in the rural Irish town of Ballykissangel. 222 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches. Bay Books, San Francisco, CA 1998.

U.S.A: Doubleday & Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. The story of a boy, a wild bird he rescues, and the role this plays in his coming of age to manhood. Clean and unmarked binding of green cloth with dark thread design, sharp and bright gilt titles; faint trace of wear to upper corners and edges, small indentation like thumbnail on top edge of front board. Tight and solid sewn binding, square with sharp corners. Internals spotless, no creases, faintly toned. Green and white jacket is not clipped, clean, rubbed, with slight edgewear. 233 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY 1974.

New York: Fawcett Columbine/Ballantine Books, 1993. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. IISigned by Author. ISigned by Author Signed by Author Signed by Author First Ballantine Printing. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Prev owner name on first page, else Fine. BRIEF INSCRIPTION AND AUTHOR SIGNATURE ON TITLE PAGE. Very clean, no marks, looks new. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. Set in the verdant pastures of a farm in rural Illinois--a story on the classic American themes of work, love, duty,and the excesses we commit to achieve success. 218 pages. 5.2 x 8 inches. Ballantine Books, New York, 1993.

USA: Scribner/Simon & Schuster, Inc, 1997. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, tight, bright, unmarked except for a previous owner signature on first page. Nine weeks after losing her husband, Charlotte escapes to a wooden motor yacht in New Hampshire. A genuine bond develops among the three women on the yacht as their distinct personalities and paths cross and converge against the backdrop of emotional secrets, abuses, and wages of old age. Off the boat, Charlotte, an archaeologist, joins a local excavation to uncover an ancient graveyard. Here she tries to reconstruct her past and bury her own recent history--but finds it doesn't work that way. 245 pages. 8 X 5.25 inches. Scribner/Simon & Schuster, New York, 1997.

U.S.A: Berkley Publishing Group, 2009. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. First Berkley Trade Paperback Printing As New. Clean and bright cover with French flap which has an interesting irregular edge. Spotless, solid and tightly bound, pages immaculate. Deckle edged. Internals also as new. 358 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Berkley Publishing Group, USA, 2009

New York: New Amer Library/Penguin Group, 2008. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright, colorful, clean cover, faint wear to corners, Square, tight binding. Pages clean and free from any markings. A powerful tale of redemption focusing on unlikely lovers, heroes, and villains and war-torn countries--all fighting to survive. Set during World War II in the South Pacific, beginning on a hospital ship on a mission of mercy. The ship is torpedoed, and survivors end up on an island--psychologcal intrigue, competing desires of love and revenge make for an intriguing story. 419 pages plus Readers' Guide. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. New American Lib/Penguin Group, New York, 2008.

USA: Grand Central Publishing, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. A Nicholas Sparks novel that explores the mysteries of the human heart in this story of a high school romance between the boy from the infamous family and the girl from the well-to-do family. Things change as she goes off the Duke University. Twenty-five years later they meet again and are forced to relive painful memories and face undeniable truths about the choices they made. 292 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 2011, Grand Central Publishing, New York and Boston, USA

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA: Zondervan Bible Publishers, 2005. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback As New. The story of a young woman who still wakes up to the horror of September 11 and her personal grief. Determined to find meaning in her life, she volunteers at St. Paul's a small chapel across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood. There she meets many grieving people and connects with a firefighter forever changed by the attacks and with a Los Angeles police officer. What she learns about one man sends her reeling. She makes her way back to life and love and helps others along the way. An inspiring story. 311 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Zondervan Bible Publishers, Grand Rapids, MI, 2005.

New York, New York, USA: William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Remainder First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition wi th a Fine Dust Jacket. Remainder mark, else Fine. Rose half-cloth binding with gilt ti tles, rose boards, spotless, bright, tight and solid volume. Part fairy-tale, part morality-tasle, humorous and sometimes farcical story of life in a small village in the sleepy French countryside. An enchanting story. 357 pages. 6 x 8.75 inches. 2000, William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, USA

U.S.A: Doubleday, 2004. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back Author's Debit Novel -- a new voice in crime fiction. Hardcover BCE in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Pages are toned, otherwise the book is Fine. Clean and unmarked, tight and solid volume. A Nobel Prize winning professor, on his way home from a celebratory party, stops to help a stranded motorist--the next day his body is found with a racist epithet carved in his chest. Is this a 'single murder' or one to cover up an even more heinous crime? 326 pages. 8.5 x 5,75 inches. 2004, Doubleday, USA

USA: Thomas Nelson, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked with cover edgewear. Internals are in Fine Condition. 352 pages. 5.9 x 8.9 inches. 2000, Thomas Nelson, USA