The shelf
Literary Fiction
63 copies on this shelf. One of each, examined point by point and photographed honestly — the flaws are on the page, not in the fine print.
63 of 273 books · 1 copy each
First editionNuns and Soldiers
Iris Murdoch
The Viking Press, 1981
$35Very Good/Very Good
First editionThe Second Coming
Walker Percy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980
$45Fine/Very Good
First editionTestimonies
Patrick O'Brian
W. W. Norton, 1993
$70Fine/Fine
First editionSignedThe Tongues of Angels
Reynolds Price
Atheneum, 1990
$60Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionSignedMachine Dreams
Jayne Anne Phillips
E. P. Dutton, 1984
$65Fine/Near Fine
First editionGood Hearts
Reynolds Price
Atheneum, 1988
$60Near Fine/VG+
First editionThe Grass Crown
Colleen McCullough
William Morrow, 1991
$60Near Fine/Very Good
First editionDirty Work
Larry Brown
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1989
$60Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionDisgrace
J. M. Coetzee
Viking, 1999
Booker Prize, 1999
$75Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionSin Killer
Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster, 2002
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First editionFingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor
Patrick Taylor
Forge, 2013
$20Near Fine/VG+
First editionThe God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Flamingo, 1997
Booker Prize, 1997
$75Near Fine/Near Fine
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe
The Modern Library (Random House), New York
$30Very Good
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Mark Twain
Harper & Brothers, 1926
$60Good
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio (translated by Frances Winwar)
The Modern Library (Random House), 1955
$20Very Good
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Doubleday, Doran, 1938
$75Good
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
Random House, 2002
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1973
$30Near Fine/VG+
First editionRedemption
Leon Uris
HarperCollins, 1995
$30Near Fine/Near Fine
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Easton Press, 1980
$35Fine
In a Dark Garden
Frank G. Slaughter
Doubleday & Company, 1946
$20Very Good
First editionSignedIn the Midst of Winter
Isabel Allende
Atria Books, 2017
$30Fine/Very Good
First editionSignedIslands
Anne Rivers Siddons
HarperCollins, 2004
$30Very Good/Very Good
First editionMemoria de mis putas tristes
Gabriel García Márquez
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004
$20Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionA Man in Full
Tom Wolfe
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First editionChesapeake
James Michener
Random House, 1978
$25Near Fine/Very Good
First editionThe Witches of El Paso
Luis Jaramillo
Primero Sueño Press / Atria, 2024
$25Fine/Near Fine
First editionIndependence Day
Richard Ford
Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1996
$25Near Fine/Very Good
First editionWhen All the World Was Young
Ferrol Sams
Longstreet Press, 1991
$20Near Fine/Very Good
Johnny Osage
Janice Holt Giles
Houghton Mifflin, 1960
$20Very Good/Very Good
First editionRabbit Is Rich
John Updike
Alfred A. Knopf, 1981
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1982
$30Near Fine/Very Good
First editionTinkers
Paul Harding
Bellevue Literary Press, 2009
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2010
$25Near Fine
First editionA Maggot
John Fowles
Little, Brown and Company, 1985
$35Near Fine/Very Good
First editionCity of Night
John Rechy
Grove Press, 1963
$25Very Good
First editionRagtime
E.L. Doctorow
Random House, 1975
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1975
$25Near Fine/VG+
Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville
$20Near Fine
First editionBewilderment
Richard Powers
W. W. Norton & Company, 2021
$20Fine/Near Fine
The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
Grosset & Dunlap (reprint), copyright 1919 by George H. Doran Company
$25Very Good
First editionShip of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter
Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company (Boston · Toronto), 1962
$25Very Good/Good
First editionThe Listener
Taylor Caldwell
Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1960
$40Very Good/Good
The Mask of Apollo
Mary Renault
Pantheon Books (Random House), New York, 1966
$20Very Good/Good
First editionOn Beauty
Zadie Smith
The Penguin Press, 2005
$20Very Good
First editionWorld Without End
Ken Follett
Dutton (Penguin Group USA), 2007
$20Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionDeath of Kings
Bernard Cornwell
$20Very Good/Near Fine
First editionDaughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
HarperCollins Publishers, 1999
$35Fine/Near Fine
First editionTotal Immersion
Allegra Goodman
Harper & Row, 1989
$30Fine/Fine
First editionSignedBridge of Clay
Markus Zusak
$20Fine/Near Fine
First editionThe Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
$25Fine/Near Fine
First editionSignedMarch
Geraldine Brooks
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2006
$50Fine/Very Good
First editionThe Big Lonesome
Will Bryant
$20Near Fine
First editionSignedChenneville
Paulette Jiles
$28Fine/Fine
First editionThe Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2016
$55Near Fine
First editionSignedThe Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan
$28Fine/Fine
First editionWorld of Wonders
Robertson Davies
$29.05Near Fine
First editionThe Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
Oscar Hijuelos
$35Fine/Near Fine
First editionSignedStill Life with Bread Crumbs
Anna Quindlen
$25Fine/Near Fine
First editionSignedSpecimen Days
Michael Cunningham
$25Fine/Near Fine
First editionSignedNutshell
Ian McEwan
$30Fine/Near Fine
First editionIn Sunlight and in Shadow
Mark Helprin
$25VG+/Very Good
First editionSignedBy Nightfall
Michael Cunningham
$29.99Fine/Fine
First editionSignedAmsterdam
Ian McEwan
Booker Prize, 1998
$55Fine/Near Fine
First editionEveryman
Philip Roth
$22Fine/Fine
First editionSignedThese Precious Days
Ann Patchett
$35Fine/Fine
First editionMidnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Booker Prize, 1981
$265Fine/Near Fine
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