Used, Rare & Out of Print Novels - pg. 4 including Almost HeavenWiggins, Marianne
Used and Out-of-Print Novels
The largest section in our online catalogue, with 5574 individually listed novels — literary fiction, translated European and Latin American writing, mid-century American hardcovers and long-out-of-print titles that never made it back into print.
Hardcover. New York, Seaview, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Originally published in Canad in 1981, First American edition. Dust jacket shows light edge wear. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 369 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light pen mark across rear flap dust jacket, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Unmarked. With a hand-written note from publisher Nan Talese to author Jay Parini laid-in. Clean and bright; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Unmarked. Clean and bright; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY CARROLL on half-title pg. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 14751
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub France 1986, his 3rd novel and 1st to be published in US. Scarce
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros , 1st US, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many b&w line Illustrations by author, edges of covers with light fade otherwise gilt and design bright, previous owner's signature front end paper
Paperback. Corvallis, Calyx Books, 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY DIAMOND on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 14966
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 354 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket that has a small edge stain to bottom of front flap. Otherwise clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st US, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in the UK 1994 .
Hardcover. New York , Delacorte Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Record # 15357
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York , Heritage Press, rep, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, previous owner's signature front end paper, / slipcase
Hardcover. New York , Heritage Press, rep, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker, previous owner's signature front end paper, slipcase
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st published in Australia in 1987.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row , 1st US, 1986, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, A hedge sparrow's year - hailed in blurbs as great nature writing. Previous owner's sticker front end paper, otherwise
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with spine label. 311 pages, illustrated endpapers, stated first edition on copyright page. Spine label scratched, small chip. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Spine sunned. INSCRIBED BY HITE on half-title page.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, rep, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The Van Tassel edition, gravure plates by various illustrator, including Arthur Rackham and F.O.C. Darley. Blue cloth, no dust jackets.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , David McKay, 1st US, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Printed from English Sheets, 12 color plates by Arthur Rackham, top edge gilt, SCARCE IN DJ, Dj w/ light edgewear, closed tears, minor chipping.
Hardcover. Kingston, NY, McPherson & Company, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON LIMITED PAGE IN REAR. NUMBERED 109/1500. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Semiotext(e), 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. ISBN label on back cover bottom. Very light yellowing to front cover and edges. Very small soil stain bottom gutter pg 93-103. Clean inside. Set in post-9/11 New York City, Story about female twenty-something, Reena, written by a large collective of writers and artists that bills itself as The Bernadette Corporation.
Hardcover. Maryland, Wildside press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Gilt on spine. Clean inside and out. From the back cover: "Teri A. Jacobs ambitiously and relentlessly pursues a darkness beyond darkness."
Hardcover. Arizona, integra Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine and front board. Clean inside. Foxing on edges, dust jacket slightly yellowed. From the back cover: "...fast-paced well-written debut...Niswander invests his characters with colorful personalities, displays knolwedge of and respect for Native American culture and knows how to weave disparate story lines together into a compelling whole."
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement."
Hardcover. New York, Viking/Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "(Pearson shows) what life and literature are essentially about. How he can bring that off amidst such hilarity is something of a miracle."
Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1ST, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "Now, D
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. With the exception of small ink mark on bottom edge, clean inside and out. From the back cover: "A vividly imagined book. It has the romantic atmosphere of those great 1930's tales in film and prose, and it speeds the reader along from its first pages...The Reserve is a pleasure well worth savoring,"
Hardcover. New York, The Hobart Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Hardcover. Decorated front board. Previous owner inscription on front flyleaf. Few foxing and soil stains. Some age wear to boards. From title page: "A Tale of the Indian Frontier".
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st U.S.A., 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Hard cover. Color illustrations throughout. bottom and side edges untrimmed. Decorated leather front cover board over green fabric covers. Gilt title on spine. Slight age wear: slight fraying top and bottom of spine, very light soil to covers. In very good shape. Decorated endpapers. Turn of the century romance novel.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Original owner inscriptions front preliminary page and back endpapers. Covers a little age worn. Foxing on edges and mostly on endpapers and first/last couple of pages. Otherwise in good shape.
Hardcover. New York, Hodder & Stoughton/George H. Doran Company, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Previous owner book plate on front endpapers. Navy fabric with gilt title and decoration on spine and font cover board. Very light age wear to covers. Pages very lightly yellowed. In good shape.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt & Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages. Hardcover. Color and B/w illustrations by Edward Penfield throughout, front preliminary illustration with tissue guard. Dark green fabric covered with gilt decoration on spine and front cover. Light age wear, in good shape. Turn of the century romance novel.
Softcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st (Proof), 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 562 pages. Softcover. PROOF with letter from publisher on front flyleaf. French flaps and deckled edges. A little bit of shelf wear to covers, clean inside. From front flap: "David Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes--the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a ghost made of falling rain--create a riveting family saga, a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic. "
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 427 pages. Hardcover. Red gilt title on spine. Deckled foredge. White covers, still very clean. Dust jacket in good shape, covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one year's artist's residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anselm's School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school's most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. ...a novel about secrets, love, and the shining chaos of everyday American life, The Dissident is a remarkable and surprising group portrait, done with a light, sure hand."
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine, white cover boards and inside very clean. Dust jacket in good shape, covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "The Tragedy of Arthur explores the tension between storytelling and truth-telling, the thirst for originality in all of our lives, and the act of literary mythmaking, both now and four centuries ago, as the two Arthurs -- Arthur the novelist and Arthur the ancient king -- play out their individual but strangely intertwined. ...Includes Shakespeare's (?) lost King Arthur play in its five-act entirety...."
Hardcover. Orlando, FL, Harcourt, Inc., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. Dust jacket covered in protective plastic. Review from back cover: "A dream of a book: mysterious, funny, and startlingly beautiful. If we had begun to suspect that American novelists had abandoned their grand and reckless ambitions, here is Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum to give us hope."
Hardcover. Minneapolis, MN, Graywolf Press, 1st English, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. Dust jacket covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "Norway, 1989: Communism is unraveling all over Europe. Arvid Jansen, thirty -seven, is trying to bridge the yawning gulf that opened up years earlier between himself and his mother. He is in the throes of a divorce, and she has just been diagnosed with cancer. ...In its piercing portrait of their layered relationship, I Curse the River of Time bears all the hallmarks of Petterson's compassion for humanity that has won him readers the world over."
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out.
Hardcover. New York, The Free Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust cover unclipped. In great shape, clean inside and out. Record # 30570
Hardcover. London, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title and design on spine, gilt design on front cover. Former library book (Howe Library, Hanover, New Hampshire), library bookplate on front endpaper, Remnants of library tag on Contents page, back endpapers, title written on back endpapers in pen. In very good shape. Pages and edges yellowed from age, but none ripped or torn. Spine still intact, gilt still bright.
Hardcover. New York, Arbor House, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust cover unclipped. In good shape, no rips or tears. Dust cover shows a little age wear. Edges a bit yellow from age.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust cover and cover boards in great shape, pages and edges a little yellow with age. No rips or tears, dust cover unclipped.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Gilt title and design on spine, gilt design on front cover board. Deckled fore and bottom edges, gilt top edge. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Gilt shows some fading on spine, still bright on cover. Spine broken on page 96/97, but still intact. In great shape considering age.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Very clean inside and out. In great shape. Dust jacket unclipped.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday & McClure, 1st Canadian, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated throughout. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Previous owner signature on front endpaper, address label on front flyleaf. Cover boards covered in green fabric, gilt decorated, some age wear. Deckled edges. Spine cocked and broken in places, but still intact and in good shape considering age.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 248 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Cover boards in excellent shape with just a touch of fading at edges. Dust jacket price clipped and shows age wear, covered for protection by brodart. Top edge dyed black, clean inside.
Hardcover. New York, The Third Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 178 pages. Hardcover. Purple gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, shows some age wear. Foxing on edges, but clean and bright inside. In good shape, dust jacket covered in brodart for protection.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages. Hardcover. "The Lover and Selected Papers from 'The Englishman' 'Town Talk' 'The Reader' 'The Spinster'" Bound in red fabric, decorated front cover. Some moisture damage to back cover. Pages yellow with age, some shelf wear to spine. Previous owners stamp and address label on front flyleaf and endpaper. In very good shape for its age.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st English, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 216 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Bound in light green, covers in good condition with a touch of age yellow and fading to edges. Pages clean, some foxing to edges and endpapers. Top edge of last blank page of book frayed. Dust jacket age-yellowed and covered in protective brodart. Edges Slightly yellowed with age. In good condition.
Hardcover. Boston, Dana Estes and Company, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Bound in bright yellow fabric, decorated front cover and spine. Shows just a touch of shelf wear (soil along top edges of covers), pages and edges have some age yellow, but in excellent condition considering age. Clean inside and binding still quite tight. No pages missing.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st U.S., 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Hardcover. Deckled fore edge. Decorated front cover. No dust jacket. Covers show some age wear/soil. Previous bookseller's stamp on front endpaper. Previous owner dated (1930) inscription on front flyleaf (erased but still visible). Edges and pages age-yellow but in good condition. Binding still tight.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 361 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover. Covers bound in teal. with a touch of chipping on the spine. Pages and edges are a bit age-yellowed, Binding still tight and in excellent condition considering its age. Former library book with expected seals, label residue and marks. Former owner's address label on front endpaper.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers. Gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover. Bound in dark brown. Former library books with expected seals, label residue and marks. Translated from the German by Mary J. Safford. Former owner's address label on front endpapers. Covers in excellent condition, just a touch of rubbing to spine. Vol. 1: 402 pages. Front flyleaf ripped at top due to former library label. A touch of foxing to edges, some age-yellow to edges and pages. In good shape for its age. Vol. 2: 333 pages. A touch of foxing to top edge, some age-yellow to edges and pages. In good shape for its age.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan & Co., 1st, 1895, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. Hardcover. B/w line illustrations throughout. Covers bound in light blue with decoration on front cover. Covers show some slight agewear. Pages and edges slightly yellow with age. Spine a little cocked. Decorated endpapers. A touch of foxing throughout, but doesn't affect text or illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1946, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Bound in light teal, cover shows a touch of agewear with fading. Binding still quite tight. Pages and edges are age-yellowed but otherwise clean inside.
Hardcover. New York, Macaulay Company, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration on frontispiece. Covers show some agewear: chipping to top and bottom of spine, a touch of fading. Age yellowing to edges and pages, but otherwise clean inside. In very good condition for its age. Charming old western.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration on frontispiece. Covers bound in red fabric. A small bit of moisture damage to front cover and a little fraying to top and bottom of spine. Other than age-yellowing and a touch of fixing to endpapers, clean inside. In good condition for its age.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 121 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped. in excellent shape, binding tight. Clean and bright inside and out. Beautiful autographed 1st ed.
Softcover. New York, Pegasus Books, 1st Paperback, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 297 pages. Softcover. In excellent shape, binding tight, wrapper pristine, clean and bright inside and out.
Hardcover. New York, The New York Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title and decoration on spine. In excellent shape. Binding tight. Clean and bright inside and out.
Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st U.S., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine, red and white covers. Deckled edges. In excellent shape, clean and bright inside and out.
Record # 31019
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