Fiction from MLC Books

Las Vegas, NV: Playtime Books, 1962. Playtime 611. The town was wide open, with all that implied. Rubbed with wear at the spine ends, reading crease to the front cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket.

New York: Dell, 1950. Dell 469, mapback. Uncle Fred is determined to help his nephew Pongo get in the good graces of Pongo's fiancee's family, but things do not go as planned. Lightly rubbed at the edges with a short crease to the lower front corner. Binding appears to have been reglued, pages a bit tanned.. Paperback.… Read more about this item

New York: Universal Publishing, 1964. Beacon Signal Sixty B776X. "A novel of instant bedrooms in wayward hotels. Morals locked up in the office...chastity left at home..." Gently bumped and rubbed with light creases to the spine and corners.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket.

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. A sudden change in tenure requirements sends an assistant professor on a search for a quick research project, one that comes with big conflict of interest. Second printing. Gently bumped. Opens a bit too readily to the title page, where French has inscribed "To George - May we… Read more about this item

New York: Atria, 2017. Things begin to spiral out of control for a lonely University professor when he accidently hits the car of an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant during a snowstorm. First printing. Fine, as new condition, jacket in Brodart. Signed by Allende on a bookplate on the half-title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.… Read more about this item

New York: Poseidon Press, 1992. A comic and insightful novel about a doctor of divinity who lusts for the last virgin in America. A Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. First printing. Gently bumped with corresponding crimps to the Brodart covered jacket, newspaper review laid in. Inscribed to a former colleague "To… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1970. Roger Furnival, in Wales to learn the language, is drawn into a conflict between a local man and moneyed interests. Second printing. Lightly bumped and rubbed. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, flaps creased, in Brodart. Laid in are two newspaper obituaries and an article on Wain, along with four… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. A daredevil aviator finds love while batlling piracy and the desire for drink. Orange boards lightly bumped and rubbed, binding square and solid. Previous owner's name on the front pastedown. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, including a tear 2/3rds of the way up the lower front spine fold. Spine… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran, 1922. An early novel by Banning with a theme of encouraging women to become politically engaged. Bumped and rubbed, hinges cracked, spine cocked. Good reading copy.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

New York: William Morrow, 1931. A fictionalized account of Missouri during the Civil War, based largely on reminiscences of the author's father, Alexander Doneghy, 343 pages. Bumped and rubbed, spine sunned and a bit mottled. Beverage ring and drip marks to the rear board. Hinges slightly loose, previous owner's bookplate on the front end paper. Signed by… Read more about this item

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Coffee House Press, 2001. When a secret oprative for a clandestine organization botches an assignment, everyone in his life is revealed. A love story set in a world of crime and confusion. First printing. Spine heel gently bumped. Jacket very lightly rubbed with a "Signed Copy" sticker on the front, in Brodart. … Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 2004. First printing, 264 pages. Gently bumped and rubbed, shelf lean, lacking the dust jacket. Signed by Clark on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Augsburg Publishing House, 1934. Life at a small Minnesota newspaper and in the small town it serves. Green boards with black gently bumped, spine sunned, with light foxing to the upper edge of the text block. Binding square and solid, illustrated end papers, 238 pages. Signed by Anderson on the foreword page, dated 3-19-34. .… Read more about this item

New York: Ecco Press, 2012. Achilles and Patroclus, very different but close friends, are tested when Helen of Sparta is kidnapped, sparking the Trojan War. Miller's first novel, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women's Prize for Fiction.) Third printing. Bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed and crimped with chips and tears to the spine… Read more about this item

Greenville, OH: Coachwhip Publications, 2016. 28 Short stories and novellas from the 1820s to the 1920s, 458 pages. Authors include Henry James, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Sax Rohmer and H.P. Lovecraft. Very gently handled.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Sacramento, CA: Winter Goose Publishing, 2012. Meet Cinnamon Monday, who descends into apathy and drug addiction. Beaten nearly to death, she is saved by a neighbor who gives her a chance to reclaim her life while woking at his vineyard, 276 pages. Lightly bumped. Inscribed on the title page "Amy - A toast to reading! Rayme.". Inscribed… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press, 1976. Offered as a memoir of Little Tree, an orphan raised by his Cherokee grandparents in their Tennesseee log cabin. Later to be revealed as fiction, the author was not Cherokee but segregationist and former Ku Klux Klan organizer Asa Earl Carter. First printing. Bumped with a touch of wear at the edges,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. Novel based on the Scottish tale of Greyfriars Bobby, a true story of a Skye Terrier who guarded his owner's grave in Edinburgh for 14 years, from 1858-1872. Early reprint, December 1912 (M-M). Bumped and rubbed with light wear at the corners and spine ends, hinges loose.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Cincinnati, OH: Cranston & Curts, 1894. Blue boards with black on the front and gilt on the spine. Bumped with light wear at the corners and spine ends, spine sightly darkened. Binding square and solid, foxing to the upper edge of the text block, 413 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. The first book in Harris' baseball quartet about pitcher Henry Wiggen, preceding Bang the Drum Slowly. Green boards with gilt gently bumped and rubbed, hinges loose. Large portion of the upper corner of the front end paper clipped, stain to the rear end papers. Jacket shows light wear at the edges, spine slightly tanned,… Read more about this item