Booth and the Spirit of Lincoln a Story of a Living Dead Man

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "After reading a story in Ladies' Home Journal about the love affair of Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, Babcock corresponded with the Illinois Historical Society and many persons who had known Lincoln personally. She became one of the country’s leading authorities on Lincoln, having conducted numerous personal interviews with his law partners and others, and published of The Soul of Ann Rutledge in 1919. This biographical novel was an international success, going through fourteen printings and translation into several foreign languages. It also was adapted into a stage play in 1934 and a radio play in 1953, when it was performed by the American Theater Wing. Babcock learned through her research that she shared many of Lincoln’s beliefs, and she wrote four more books about Lincoln and his family between 1923 and 1929. She also wrote Light Horse Harry’s Boys (1931) about Robert E. Lee and The Heart of George Washington (1931) about the first U. S. President." ". Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 41368

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Bernie Babcock Illinois President Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln's Family Historical Fiction

ABBEY, EDWARD

Hayduke Lives! a Novel

New York, NY: Little, Brown & Company, 1990. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1112842411. Illustrated by John Sposato. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 45950

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 1112842411 Modern Fiction First Edition Edward Abbey Environmentalism Mormon Church Eco-warriors

ABE, SHANA

Queen of Dragons

New York: Bantam, 2007. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0553805282. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 41536

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0553805282 Modern Fiction First Edition Shana Abe The Drakon Series Historical Fiction Romantic Fiction

ABOUT, EDMOND (EDMOND FRANçOIS VALENTIN ABOUT)

Le Roman D'un Brave Homme (the Story of an Honest Man)

Paris, France: Librarie Hachette Et Cie, 1906. Reprint. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is entirely in FRENCH. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The decorated covers have gilt, black and red embossing. The gilding has dulled a bit, especially on the spine. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper used." Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 1828 – 16 January 1885) was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.... During the next few years, he wrote novels, stories, a play (which failed) , a book-pamphlet on the Roman question, many pamphlets on other subjects of the day, innumerable newspaper articles, some art criticisms, rejoinders to the attacks of his enemies, and popular manuals of political economy, L'A B C du travailleur (1868) , Le progrès (1864). His more serious novels include Madelon (1863) , L'Infâme (1867) , the three that form the trilogy of the Vieille Roche (1866) , and Le roman d'un brave home (1880) – a kind of counterblast to the view of the French workman presented in Émile Zola's L'Assommoir. He is best remembered as a farceur, for the books Le nez d'un notaire (1862) ; Le roi des montagnes (1856) ; L'homme à l'oreille cassée (1862) ; Trente et quarante (1858) ; Le cas de M. Guérin (1862; see Georges Maurice de Guérin).". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 34757

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Edmond About Edmond Francois Valentin About Hachette Et Cie Bibliogtheque Des Ecoles Et Des Familles Modern Fiction

ACKROYD, PETER

Chatterton

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc, 1988. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0802100414. This book is in Near Fine condition with a Near Fine dust jacket. This is a First American Edition. This is Peter Ackroyd's third novel and nominated on the short list for the Booker Prize. "In today's London, a young poet and an elderly female novelist engage the mystery of Chatterton by trying to decode the clues foudn in an old manuscript, only to discover that their investigation discloses other riddles for which there are no solutions. They are not alone in their quest: the mystery is also being revived in an earlier age, as in the mid-nineteenth century Henry Wallis paints his celebrated portrait of Chatterton lying dead in an attic room.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46215

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: 0802100414 Modern Fiction First Editions Peter Ackroyd Thomas Chatterton Forgeries Forgers Artists Painters Medieval Manuscripts

ACKROYD, PETER

First Light

London, England: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0241124980. Illustrated by Craig Dodd. Cover Art; The book is in Very Good+ condition with a Near Fine Dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean, however, there is some generalized toning to the pages due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "In his novels he often contrasts historical settings with present-day segments (e. G. The Great Fire of London, Hawksmoor, The House of Doctor Dee). Many of Ackroyd's novels are set in London and deal with the ever-changing, but at the same time stubbornly consistent nature of the city. Often this theme is explored through the city's artists, especially its writers: Oscar Wilde in The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) , a fake autobiography of Wilde; Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh in Hawksmoor (1985) ; Thomas Chatterton and George Meredith in Chatterton (1987) ; John Dee in The House of Dr Dee (1993) ; Dan Leno, Karl Marx, George Gissing and Thomas De Quincey in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994) ; John Milton in Milton in America (1996) ; Charles Lamb in The Lambs of London. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40379

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: 0241124980 General Fiction Fiction Archaeological Digs Archaeology Peter Ackroyd Speculative Fiction Modern Fiction Firsts

ADAMS, ALICE

Invincible Summer

New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2016. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316391174. Illustrated by Lauren Harms. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the bottom spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright. "Adams sold her short story, Winter Rain, to Charm magazine. Her first novel was Careless Love (1966) ; in 1969 she began publishing stories in The New Yorker and received growing recognition. Eventually, she published more than 25 stories there. She wrote eleven novels, including the bestseller Superior Women, but is best known and most admired for her short stories, collected in Beautiful Girl (1979) , To See You Again (1982) , Return Trips (1985) , After You've Gone (1989) , and The Last Lovely City (1999) , as well as in the posthumous selection called The Stories of Alice Adams (2002). All her short story collections and all but one novel were published by Victoria Wilson at Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. After the War and The Stories of Alice Adams appeared posthumously. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 45059

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0316391174 Modern Fiction First Edition Alice Adams Author's First Novel Physics Science Lauren Harms

ADAMS, RICHARD

Watership Down

New York: MacMillan, 1974. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0027000303. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and tears to the spine ends and corners. There is a small rubbed hole to the front spine joint. / The spine of the dust jacket has some light toning. "Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in southern England, around Berkshire, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with burrows, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home (the hill of Watership Down) , encountering perils and temptations along the way. "(from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 43166

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: 0027000303 Modern Fiction Richard Adams Animals Anthropomorphism Classic Fiction

ADE, GEORGE

Forty Modern Fables

New York: R. H. Russell / Grosset & Dunlap, 1901. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and edge wear. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book cover, along with some fading to the color of the cloth. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a former owner's penciled in gift notation on the half title page. More interesting is this copy includes a bookplate for San Francisco Bay Area socialite Amy Requa Long. "Amy Requa Long, later Mitten (1876-1960) , a. K. A. Mrs. Oscar Fitzalan Long, who was one of the East Bay's most prominent socialites who later became a successful businesswoman in her own right. When her husband died she made headlines purchasing two banks in Willits, this coming on the heels of a number of successful real estate deals. Amy Long got involved in real estate when she led the effort to subdivide the Requa Estate on Highland Avenue in Piedmont near their home at 65 Hazel Lane. The Requa house was known as "The Highlands" and could be seen from San Francisco. It contained 40-acres of gardens, but was razed in 1923. After Long's death, she remarried Homer Mitten of Willits. She was also the President of the Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County and served on their board of directors for many years. She was a regular fixture in the local society pages. " (from M. Benjamin Katz, website) .. Very Good .

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Book number: 42737

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction George Ade Humor Amy Requa Long San Francisco Bay Area

ALARCON, DANIEL

War By Candlelight Stories

New York: Harpercollins, 2005. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060594780. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of a small round spot of glue residue where a sticker was removed. "Daniel Alarcón (born March 5,1977 in Lima, Peru) is a novelist, journalist and radio producer. He is co-founder, host and Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante, an award-winning Spanish language podcast distributed by NPR. Currently, he is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the Columbia University Journalism School and writes about Latin America forThe New Yorker. He began his career writing fiction, publishing stories in magazines like The New Yorker, Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and his short stories have been widely anthologized. He served as Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra until 2015. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Peru, and a 2011 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. His novel At Night We Walk in Circles was published by Riverhead Books in October 2013." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 40223

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: 0060594780 Modern Fiction First Edition Daniel Alarcon Short Stories Peru Modern Fiction Firsts

ALDRIDGE, JOHN W.

The Pary at Cranton

London, England: Constable, 1960. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There are a couple of small spots of a brownish color to the very bottom edge of the spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. All edges of the text block have some light foxing. The dust jacket is mostl clean and bright. There are several spots of rubbing to the dust jacket. "Using American Modernist writing of the 1920s as his lofty standard, Aldridge wrote of the creative dilemmas faced by those writers who arrived on the literary scene a generation later, yet still hoped to create fresh depictions of their experience. Reviewing new work as it appeared, he could be merciless in his evisceration of those who, in his view, failed to measure up. As he wrote memorably in 1951, the new writers "have learned that after the innovators come the specialists and after the specialists the imitators and that after a movement has spent itself there can only come the incestuous, the archaeologists, and the ghouls." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 40997

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition John W. Aldridge Relationships Parties

ALEXIE, SHERMAN

Ten Little Indians

New York, NY: The Grove Press, 2003. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0802117449. Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 44234

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0802117449 Modern Fiction First Edition Sherman Alexie Signed Edition Short Stories Native Amerians Indigenous People

ALI, MONICA

Brick Lane

New York: Scribners, 2003. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 038560484X. Signed Edition. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Monica Ali (born 20 October 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut novel, Brick Lane, was published later that year. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. She has also published three other novels. "; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 39940

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: 038560484X Modern Fiction First Edition Monica Ali Signed Edition England

ALLEN, JAMES LANE

A Kentucky Cardinal

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Early printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light, bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's gift notation on the front endpaper. "James Lane Allen (December 21, 1849 – February 18, 1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 46190

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction James Lane Allen Kentucky Historical Fiction

D'AMBROSIO, CHARLES

The Point Stories

Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1995. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316171441. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Orphans, a collection of essays, was published in 2005 by Clear Cut Press. The book, which gained something of a cult status, sold out of its small-print run and was never reprinted. Ten years after his first collection, The Point, Knopf published his second book of fiction, The Dead Fish Museum. Six of the eight stories in the collection were originally published in The New Yorker. The book was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. In October 2006, D'Ambrosio was awarded the prestigious Whiting Award. Among other honors, he has received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and is presently a USA Rasmuson Fellow. The Rasmuson Fellowship earned him a $50,000 grant from United States Artists, a relatively new organization that supports and promotes the work of American artists in a variety of disciplines." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 41194

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0316171441 Modern Fiction First Edition Charles D'ambrosio Short Stories