Search Results: Fiction: Collectible Pbks from Black Cat Hill Books

New York, NY Ballantine Books: Ivy Books, 1993. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Edition thus, so stated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding shows the slightest lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing; pages tanned a bit. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 12mo. 244pp. Mass Market Paperback. Blake's lively follow-up to Dances with Wolves explores the coming-of-age of a rebellious 18-year-old serviceman in the summer of 1966. Airman Mortensen's story, told in teen vernacular, is one of an 18-year-old who joins the service in 1966 because it seems like a good idea at the time. He soon regrets his decision. Following a divergence of viewpoint with the Comm Squad commander, he becomes the latrine king while awaiting court martial. Life goes steadily downhill until he meets Claire Brill, the base commander's daughter.… Read More

New York, NY G.P. Putnam's Sons: Perigee Books, 1981. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows very light wear to the extremities, a little heavier along the lower edge of the front panel; mild rubbing and the faintest toning to the wrapper covers; the titles at the back strip appear to be very lightly sunned, blanching them a bit; binding shows the slightest reverse lean, while remaining perfectly secure; text clean. Structurally sound and tightly bound; remains quite presentable and with a clean text. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 206pp. First Windhover Edition. Translated by Howard Hibbett. Trade Paperback. This little novel, though economical in size and language, is a monument to the Japanese ideal of "less is more". Kawabata's prose is highly musical and amazingly crafted. His eloquent, often delightful truths seem to bring the reader's attention to the essence of life, nature,… Read More

New York, NY Avon: Bard, 1981. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; tiny stain at upper front corner of text block affects first fifteen pages; pages tanned with age; binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 12mo. 344pp. Mass Market Paperback. Mary McCarthy has never gotten her due as a prose writer and this -- her best novel -- seems to have been overlooked. This is the story of a young man 's emancipation from his very much loved mother (with whom he has an almost romantic relationship based on her attractiveness and their shared sensibility). They construct an ideal life together in which they eschew all "modern" conveniences for the niceties of the past. She remarries and he is launched as an adult, going to Paris… Read More

New York, NY Bantam, 1990. Paperback First Edition thus, so stated. First Edition thus, so stated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only minute indications of use. Book shows pages tanned just slightly; binding square and secure; text clean. Spine uncreased. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. Not a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 12mo. 301pp. Mass Market Paperback. Neither artifice nor parlor game, the title refers to the various versions of herself considered by Charade Ryan, a young Australian searching for her father. By this complex tale's end readers may be feeling as full of uncertainty as Heisenberg's principle of physics predicts. Tantalizing, convoluted, but shimmering with possibilities.

Queensland, Australia University of Queensland Press, 1988. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Very Good++ in Wraps: shows only minor indications of use: Shows considerable rubbing and the pages are tanned just slightly; else flawless; spine uncreased. The binding is square and secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. Not a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 345pp. Academic Press Paperback. Neither artifice nor parlor game, the title refers to the various versions of herself considered by Charade Ryan, a young Australian searching for her father. By this complex tale's end readers may be feeling as full of uncertainty as Heisenberg's principle of physics predicts. Tantalizing, convoluted, but shimmering with possibilities.

New York, NY Penguin Books, 1992. Paperback First Edition Thus [1992]; First Printing indicated. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Edition Thus [1992]; First Printing indicated. Fine in Wraps: flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 263pp. Trade Paperback. Humphreys has a remarkable talent for creating appealing characters in domestic situations that reveal life's inherent ironies. Again set in Charleston, S.C., her new novel is witty, intelligent, psychologically acute and captivating. Though solidly anchored in the realities of existence, the narrative offers the possibilities of happiness and hope. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

New York, NY Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1995. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding square and secure; text clean. Pages tanned a bit. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 303pp. Trade Paperback.

Baltimore, MD The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: binding shows the slightest spine lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Else flawless. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 209pp. Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction Series. University Press Paperback.

New York, NY Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. Paperback First Edition Thus (1993); First Printing, so stated. First Edition Thus (1993); First Printing, so stated. Fine in Wraps: flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no imperfections. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.25 x 5.5 x 0.85 inches). xi, 274 pages. Illustrated with duotone photographs. Compiled by Carin Kuoni Introductory. Essays by Kim Levin and Caroline Tisdall. Language: English. Weight: 13 ounces. Trade Paperback.

New York NY HarperCollins: HarperTorch, 2001. Paperback First Edition Thus [2001]; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus [2001]; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only a barely discernible nick at the lower outside edge front panel; else flawless; binding square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 313pp. Mass Market Paperback. Fifteen-year-old Kaspian Aaby walks out of a repressive summer camp for troubled teens and into the Maine woods. He awakens the next morning to find that four days have passed and he is 60 miles from where he should be. It was no dream, his strange nocturnal experience of mysterious beings that may be malevolent fairies or aliens, an angel, and the ghost of his dead father. Frightened, Kaspian's born-again stepmother exiles him to an authoritarian private school in Virginia, where obsessed alien-abduction investigators, extremist educational theorists, and paranoid politicians… Read More

New York, NY Scribner: Signature Editions, 1988. Paperback First Ed; First Printing indicated. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR in blue ink on the front endpaper. There is also a printed "signature" at the title page, as do all titles in the signature series. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; wrappers covered with clear vinyl pastedown cover; little or no wear to the wrappers themselves;binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing; pages tanned a bit. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 385pp. [Book V of the Beulah Quintet]. Trade Paperback. Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918, Charleston, West Virginia – September 27, 2005, Ivy, Virginia) was an American writer. She won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie and was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Settle is most famous for… Read More

New York, NY Ballantine: Fawcett Crest, 1989. Paperback First Edition Thus [1989], so stated. First Edition Thus [1989], so stated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only minor indications of light use. Book shows short tear in rear panel near rear hinge and affecting the last few pages of the book; nevertheless, binding square and secure; text clean. Remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable, but not longer quite 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. Not a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 12mo. 194pp. Mass Market Paperback. Mukherjee's central preoccupation is the problematical nature of personal encounters between East and West. These expertly crafted tales all turn on recent Third World immigrant experience in or closely affected by North America. Mukherjee's keen eye for telling and sensuous detail make these stories rewarding. Her limpid prose has a capacity to surprise with trenchant wit and delight with finely calibrated lyricism. 

New York, NY Random House: Vintage, 1994. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding square and secure; text clean. Pages tanned a bit. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 306pp. Vintage Contemporaries. Trade Paperback. As readers of Jones's debut novel, Ordinary Money , discovered, he has a keen eye for the foolish and incongruous moments in daily existence, and a knack for portraying the hard-pressed lives of those on the edge of financial disaster. The protagonist of his second novel, theoretical physicist Mark Perdue, is at the other end of the financial spectrum: at age 23 he published a brilliant theory and now, four years later, he is rich and famous and holds a prestigious chair at Berkeley. But the next-door neighbor in his condo development is just such another feckless down-and-outer: Roger… Read More

Cambridge, MA Applewood Books, 1983. Paperback First Edition Thus [1983]; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus [1983]; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to the extremities and the mildest rubbing; a tiny soil spot at the lower front endpaper; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. No longer pristinek, but remains very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 93pp. Trade Paperback.

Santa Cruz, CA Town Scribe Books, 2003. Paperback First Edition [2003], unstated, but the author has inscribed the words "First Edition 280 copies" above his signature at the front endpaper . SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Edition [2003], unstated, but the author has inscribed the words "First Edition 280 copies" above his signature at the front endpaper. Fine in Wraps: the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 467pp. Edition limited to 280 copies. Paperback. Milton Reed, former San Francisco Fireman, starts a new job teaching English in the Haight Ashbury District's ghetto High School. Recently divorced and the father of two children, he challenges both students and his fellow teachers to honor free speech and academic freedom. A hilarious stream-of-consciousness ride set in SF during the Summer of Love in the late 1960s. Completely enjoyable and thigh-slappin' funny. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

New York, NY St. Martin's: Griffin, 1995. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing; pages tanned a bit. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 374pp. Trade Paperback.

New York, NY Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991. Paperback First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: there is just a hint of wear to the corner tips and the slightest toning to the white background field of the wrapper covers; else only the mildest rubbing; the binding remains square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 166pp. Trade Paperback. In a theater of coastal rocks, before an audience of goats, a man tells his story--about the impossibility of telling his story. Like the rocks, which he describes both as faces and as anal, ``hair-clogged fissures,'' storytelling, he says, consists of fronts and rears, beginnings and ends. And language avails him no devices with which to connect these ``into some single statement worthy of a whole being.'' So the man refers to himself in this trilogy of novellas through a ``cento of… Read More

Boston, MA Houghton Mifflin Company: Mariner Books, 2002. Paperback First Ed thus, unstated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to lower corner tips; "Autographed" sticker at front panel. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 217pp. First Ed thus, unstated. Trade Paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

New York, NY Four Walls Eight Windows, 1988. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Fine in Wraps: binding square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 185pp. Trade Paperback. In this collection of stories, Brodsky creates a variety of tableaux, still frames that offer up miasmic surfaces while providing fascinating and depth-giving detail. Characters, often nameless or generic stand-ins for people, struggle with despair, indifference, muteness, nakedness. Their progress is measured in microscopic nuances that reflect their obsessions. Brodsky has a fondness for flow-stopping multisyllabics recrudescence, matutinal, and extirpating , to name just a fewand the stories are dense, some verging on gothic.