Fiction from Books of the World

New York: The Heritage Press, 1939. Hardcover. Maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering and gold knight drawing on spine. Illustrated with dozens of semi-erotic black and white illustrations. Heritage Club notes (Sandglass Number 2K) laid-in. A Very Good book with no dust jacket or slipcase. Impression seal with prior owner's name to FFEP, no other markings observed. Spine straight,… Read more about this item

Tournai, Belgium: Casterman, 1973. Hardcover. Orange cloth over boards with gilt lettering. May 1984 printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight, end lightly bumped. Jacket clean light wear at edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 420 pages. French Text. Illustrated. Heavy item: Extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Archives Hergé… Read more about this item

New York: Smithmark, 1998. Hardcover. First Thus / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Spine head and corners lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light edge wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 296 pages. Bedtime stories will never again be the same.

New York: Bantam Classics, January 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine lightly creased. Covers clean and bright. Corners sharp. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxiv + 360 pages. Lady Chatterly's Lover became notorious for its story of the physical and emotional relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster / Scribner, August 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Prior owner's name to first page. Spine straight, tight and uncrease. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 436 pages. Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. In… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner, July 2014. Trade Paperback. Good+. Unmarked. Reading wear. Creasing to covers. Not from a library. xix + 330 pages. The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Very Good. Not from a library. 354 pages. From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the West—and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang—or… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, November 2009. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 308 pages. Ford County is the best writing that John Grisham has ever done. Returning to the setting of his first novel, Grisham… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mufflin / Mariner Books, June 2004. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 261 pages. A novel of Paris in the 1930s from the eyes of the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Viewing… Read more about this item

New York: Fall River Press, 2014. Hardcover. As New book in an As New jacket. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 731 pages. Two of the greatest adventure stories of all time, these timeless epics of war, duty, honor, and revenge are filled with magic, mystery, and an assortment of gods and… Read more about this item

RARE! New York: Viking Press, 1968. Trade Paperback. Viking Compass Book, C221; Second Printing, April 1968. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean with reading and shelf wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. vi + 160 + 170 + 175 pages. Rare copy of the 1968 (25th anniversary) paperback edition of Greene's finest… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, April 1997. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine and bound-in black ribbon bookmark. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight reading wear to edges and corners. No tears. Not from a library.… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 2011. Mass Market Paperback. Later Printing. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, with light creases. Covers clean and bright. Light reading wear to bottom corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 1061 pages. It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, September 1991. Hardcover. First American Edition (stated). Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Dust stains to top edge, otherwise As New. Unread. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 164 pages. Winner of the Guardian Prize, the Guyana Prize, and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award. In this startling debut collection hard-luck Londoners and Caribs… Read more about this item

Rare! London: Collier / Grafton Books, February 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. No ownership markings. Text clean. Spine creased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 304 pages. Originally published in 1954 under the title The Harrowing of Hubertus. Featuring quick-to-strip heroines, magic, and insanity on a colonial British Guiana sugar plantation.

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1951. Hardcover. First Edition (no additional printings listed). Blue and red cloth over boards with black decoration on front cover and black lettering to spine. Top edge died red. Very Good+ book in a Very Good jacket. Old price penciled to FFEP, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Jacket clean with… Read more about this item

New York: Bloomsbury, April 1999. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated) / full number line. Bound-in ribbon bookmark. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Jacket clean and bright with slight shelf wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 224 pages. Spirits are on the move in Pauline Melville's second short story collection.… Read more about this item

New York: Soho, December 2011. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Spine ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. Remainder mark. Not clipped. Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he's tired… Read more about this item

New York: Soho, 2013. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Light stain to top edge. Spine straight and very tight. Spine ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. Remainder mark. Not clipped.

New York: Soho, August 2016. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Red remainder dot to bottom edge. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket has scratches to rear panel, otherwise clean and bright. Not from a library. Not clipped. Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife,… Read more about this item