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Literary Fiction

105 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.

105 of 487 books · 1 copy each
First edition

The Silver Chalice

Thomas B. Costain
Doubleday & Company, 1952
$20Good
First edition

London

Edward Rutherfurd
Crown, 1997
$25Near Fine/VG+
First edition

McX: A Romance of the Dour

Todd McEwen
Grove Weidenfeld, 1990
$20Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Sharpe's Enemy

Bernard Cornwell
The Viking Press, New York, 1984
$68Very Good/Near Fine
First edition

Poor Boy and a Long Way from Home

James Sherburne
Houghton Mifflin, 1984
$28Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Now, God Be Thanked

John Masters
McGraw-Hill, 1979
$22Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

How late it was, how late

James Kelman
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
$22Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Gone the Dreams and Dancing

Douglas C. Jones
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984
$15Near Fine/VG+
First edition

The Gates of the Alamo

Stephen Harrigan
Alfred A. Knopf, 2000
$20Near Fine/VG+
First edition

Byzantium Endures

Michael Moorcock
Random House, 1981
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

English Passengers

Matthew Kneale
Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2000
$20Fine/Near Fine

For the Term of His Natural Life

Marcus Clarke
Hallcraft Publishing, Melbourne, 1963
$20Very Good/Good
First edition

Coromandel!

John Masters
The Viking Press, 1955
$25Very Good/Good
First edition

The King's Commission

Dewey Lambdin
Donald I. Fine, 1991
$40Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

The Archer's Tale

Bernard Cornwell
HarperCollins, 2001
$22Fine/Near Fine
First editionSigned

Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys
Philomel Books, 2016
$30Near Fine/VG+

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque
The Heritage Press, 1969
$30Fine
First edition

Fire Along the Sky

Robert Moss
St. Martin's Press, 1992
$20Fine/Near Fine
First edition

For Love of the Game

Michael Shaara
Carroll & Graf, 1991
$65Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

The Lost Legion

H. Warner Munn
Doubleday, 1980
$40Very Good/Good
First edition

Mason & Dixon

Thomas Pynchon
Henry Holt, 1997
$40Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Picture This

Joseph Heller
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Whirlwind

James Clavell
William Morrow, 1986
$20Fine/VG+
First edition

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997
$30Fine/Near Fine
First edition

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving
William Morrow, 1989
$30Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

A Frolic of His Own

William Gaddis
Poseidon Press, 1994
$25Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Cities of the Plain

Cormac McCarthy
Alfred A. Knopf, 1998
$45Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Quicksilver

Neal Stephenson
William Morrow, 2003
$25Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Gai-Jin

James Clavell
Delacorte Press, 1993
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James

George Garrett
Doubleday, 1983
$25Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Sarum

Edward Rutherfurd
Crown Publishers, 1987
$75Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Underworld

Don DeLillo
Scribner, 1997
$30Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Cloudstreet

Tim Winton
Graywolf Press, 1992
$20Fine/Fine
First edition

Vineland

Thomas Pynchon
Little, Brown, 1990
$50Fine/Near Fine
First edition

A Case of Curiosities

Allen Kurzweil
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992
$40Near Fine/Very Good

Savages

Shirley Conran
Simon and Schuster, 1987
$20Very Good/Very Good
First edition

Golden Dreams

Gwen Bristow
Lippincott & Crowell, 1980
$30Very Good/Good
First edition

The Queen's Lover

Francine du Plessix Gray
The Penguin Press, 2012
$20Fine/Near Fine
First editionSigned

The Garden of Last Days

Andre Dubus III
W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
$30Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

My Name Is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok
Alfred A. Knopf, 1972
$35Very Good/Good
First edition

The Rebel Angels

Robertson Davies
The Viking Press, 1982
$20Near Fine/Good
First edition

Mother Tongue

Demetria Martínez
Ballantine Books (One World), New York, 1996
$20Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Wise Children

Angela Carter
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992
$20Near Fine/Near Fine

The Hotel New Hampshire

John Irving
E.P. Dutton, 1981
$30Near Fine/VG+
First edition

Home

Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
$35Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Barkskins

Annie Proulx
Scribner, 2016
$40VG+/Near Fine

Beneath Another Sun

Ernst Lothar
Doubleday, Doran, 1943
$25Very Good

Lust For Life

Irving Stone
Doubleday, 1934
$40Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Places in the World a Woman Could Walk

Janet Kauffman
Alfred A. Knopf, 1984
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Exit Ghost

Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
$20Fine/Near Fine
First edition

The Child in Time

Ian McEwan
Houghton Mifflin, 1987
$25Very Good/Very Good
First edition

Kiss of the Wolf

Jim Shepard
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994
$25Fine/Near Fine

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (translated by Frances Winwar)
The Modern Library (Random House), New York, 1955
$30Very Good

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, Wisconsin
$25Good

Random Winds

Belva Plain
Delacorte Press, 1980
$20Very Good/Very Good
First edition

Nuns and Soldiers

Iris Murdoch
The Viking Press, 1981
$35Very Good/Very Good
First edition

The Second Coming

Walker Percy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980
$45Fine/Very Good
First edition

Testimonies

Patrick O'Brian
W. W. Norton, 1993
$70Fine/Fine
First editionSigned

The Tongues of Angels

Reynolds Price
Atheneum, 1990
$60Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionSigned

Machine Dreams

Jayne Anne Phillips
E. P. Dutton, 1984
$30Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Good Hearts

Reynolds Price
Atheneum, 1988
$60Near Fine/VG+
First edition

The Grass Crown

Colleen McCullough
William Morrow, 1991
$60Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Dirty Work

Larry Brown
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1989
$60Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee
Viking, 1999
Booker Prize, 1999
$75Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Sin Killer

Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster, 2002
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor

Patrick Taylor
Forge, 2013
$20Near Fine/VG+
First edition

The 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

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 edition

Redemption

Leon Uris
HarperCollins, 1995
$30Near Fine/Near Fine

In a Dark Garden

Frank G. Slaughter
Doubleday & Company, 1946
$20Very Good
First editionSigned

In the Midst of Winter

Isabel Allende
Atria Books, 2017
$30Fine/Very Good
First editionSigned

Islands

Anne Rivers Siddons
HarperCollins, 2004
$30Very Good/Very Good
First edition

Memoria de mis putas tristes

Gabriel García Márquez
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004
$20Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

The Witches of El Paso

Luis Jaramillo
Primero Sueño Press / Atria, 2024
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Independence Day

Richard Ford
Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1996
$25Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

When 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 edition

A Maggot

John Fowles
Little, Brown and Company, 1985
$35Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

City of Night

John Rechy
Grove Press, 1963
$35Very Good
First edition

Ragtime

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 edition

Bewilderment

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 edition

The 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 edition

On Beauty

Zadie Smith
The Penguin Press, 2005
$20Very Good
First edition

World Without End

Ken Follett
Dutton (Penguin Group USA), 2007
$20Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Death of Kings

Bernard Cornwell
$20Very Good/Near Fine
First edition

Daughter of Fortune

Isabel Allende
HarperCollins Publishers, 1999
$35Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Total Immersion

Allegra Goodman
Harper & Row, 1989
$30Fine/Fine
First editionSigned

Bridge of Clay

Markus Zusak
$20Fine/Near Fine
First editionSigned

March

Geraldine Brooks
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2006
$50Fine/Very Good
First edition

The Big Lonesome

Will Bryant
$20Near Fine
First editionSigned

Chenneville

Paulette Jiles
$28Fine/Fine
First editionSigned

The Valley of Amazement

Amy Tan
$28Fine/Fine
First edition

World of Wonders

Robertson Davies
$29.05Near Fine
First edition

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien

Oscar Hijuelos
$35Fine/Near Fine
First editionSigned

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

Anna Quindlen
$25Fine/Near Fine
First editionSigned

Specimen Days

Michael Cunningham
$25Fine/Near Fine
First editionSigned

Nutshell

Ian McEwan
$30Fine/Near Fine
First edition

In Sunlight and in Shadow

Mark Helprin
$25VG+/Very Good
First editionSigned

By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham
$29.99Fine/Fine
First edition

Everyman

Philip Roth
$22Fine/Fine

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