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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 editionThe Silver Chalice
Thomas B. Costain
Doubleday & Company, 1952
$20Good
First editionLondon
Edward Rutherfurd
Crown, 1997
$25Near Fine/VG+
First editionMcX: A Romance of the Dour
Todd McEwen
Grove Weidenfeld, 1990
$20Fine/Near Fine
First editionSharpe's Enemy
Bernard Cornwell
The Viking Press, New York, 1984
$68Very Good/Near Fine
First editionPoor Boy and a Long Way from Home
James Sherburne
Houghton Mifflin, 1984
$28Fine/Near Fine
First editionNow, God Be Thanked
John Masters
McGraw-Hill, 1979
$22Near Fine/Very Good
First editionHow late it was, how late
James Kelman
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
$22Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionGone the Dreams and Dancing
Douglas C. Jones
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984
$15Near Fine/VG+
First editionThe Gates of the Alamo
Stephen Harrigan
Alfred A. Knopf, 2000
$20Near Fine/VG+
First editionByzantium Endures
Michael Moorcock
Random House, 1981
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First editionEnglish 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 editionCoromandel!
John Masters
The Viking Press, 1955
$25Very Good/Good
First editionThe King's Commission
Dewey Lambdin
Donald I. Fine, 1991
$40Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionThe Archer's Tale
Bernard Cornwell
HarperCollins, 2001
$22Fine/Near Fine
First editionSignedSalt 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 editionFire Along the Sky
Robert Moss
St. Martin's Press, 1992
$20Fine/Near Fine
First editionFor Love of the Game
Michael Shaara
Carroll & Graf, 1991
$65Near Fine/Very Good
First editionThe Lost Legion
H. Warner Munn
Doubleday, 1980
$40Very Good/Good
First editionMason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
Henry Holt, 1997
$40Fine/Near Fine
First editionPicture This
Joseph Heller
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988
$25Fine/Near Fine
First editionWhirlwind
James Clavell
William Morrow, 1986
$20Fine/VG+
First editionCold Mountain
Charles Frazier
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997
$30Fine/Near Fine
First editionA Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
William Morrow, 1989
$30Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionA Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis
Poseidon Press, 1994
$25Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionCities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy
Alfred A. Knopf, 1998
$45Fine/Near Fine
First editionQuicksilver
Neal Stephenson
William Morrow, 2003
$25Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionGai-Jin
James Clavell
Delacorte Press, 1993
$25Fine/Near Fine
First editionThe Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James
George Garrett
Doubleday, 1983
$25Near Fine/Very Good
First editionSarum
Edward Rutherfurd
Crown Publishers, 1987
$75Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionUnderworld
Don DeLillo
Scribner, 1997
$30Fine/Near Fine
First editionCloudstreet
Tim Winton
Graywolf Press, 1992
$20Fine/Fine
First editionVineland
Thomas Pynchon
Little, Brown, 1990
$50Fine/Near Fine
First editionA 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 editionGolden Dreams
Gwen Bristow
Lippincott & Crowell, 1980
$30Very Good/Good
First editionThe Queen's Lover
Francine du Plessix Gray
The Penguin Press, 2012
$20Fine/Near Fine
First editionSignedThe Garden of Last Days
Andre Dubus III
W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
$30Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionMy Name Is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok
Alfred A. Knopf, 1972
$35Very Good/Good
First editionThe Rebel Angels
Robertson Davies
The Viking Press, 1982
$20Near Fine/Good
First editionMother Tongue
Demetria Martínez
Ballantine Books (One World), New York, 1996
$20Fine/Near Fine
First editionWise 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 editionHome
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
$35Fine/Near Fine
First editionBarkskins
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 editionPlaces in the World a Woman Could Walk
Janet Kauffman
Alfred A. Knopf, 1984
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First editionExit Ghost
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
$20Fine/Near Fine
First editionThe Child in Time
Ian McEwan
Houghton Mifflin, 1987
$25Very Good/Very Good
First editionKiss 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 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
$30Fine/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

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

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 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 editionA Maggot
John Fowles
Little, Brown and Company, 1985
$35Near Fine/Very Good
First editionCity of Night
John Rechy
Grove Press, 1963
$35Very 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 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 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 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 editionEveryman
Philip Roth
$22Fine/Fine
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