Resultados de búsqueda: Fiction from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1980. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Anne Siberell (Woodcuts). EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated DJ/NF; under library mylar. Semi-fictional biography of a Hopi Indian named Dawa-Wufto (which literally means a sun on the rise). Raised on an Indian Reservation in Arizona, by order of the U.S. Government he was sent to the Sherman Indian Institute in Riverside, California for further education. The year was 1928, and Climbing Sun was only eleven years old.

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1915. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. G.W. Gage (Illustrator). Copyright W.J. Watt, 1915. Text/VG w/light soiling; closed tear to leading edge margin of pg 119, weak (but sound) hinge between pgs 250 & 251. Illustrated boards/VG; strong & sound w/edge rubs, particularly to corner tips, and showing discoloration. Frontispiece: Minerva and Newt Spooner. Illustrated by G.W. Gage, Charles Neville Buck (1879 - 1930) sets this tale Kentucky in the days when local tradition and mores ran strong.

New York, NY: Harper & Bros, 1947. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Poor. Text/As New & Bright. Vintage 1947, First Edition, First Thus. Black linen boards/NF. DJ/Poor; intact w/edge tear & losses; under mylar. Journalist, conservationist, dramatist & novelist Louis Bromfield (1896 - 1956) served in World War I. Long resident of France, he returned to his native Ohio to engage in scientifc farming (Pleasant Valley, A Few Brass Tack, and, The Farm). Early novels (Early Autumn, 1926, Pulitzer) addressed efforts of the individual to escape dominance of family & tradition of different eras in American values. This story, set in a wide-open frontier town in the heyday of the old colorful West, studies groups of society figures, including expatriates, in similar states of crisis. The place is Silver City, Colorado, a the town is dominated by P.J. Meany who manages to lord it over men, railroads, mines & ranches alike. Living in domestic, harmonic balance with a… Leer más

New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1963. Reprint, 5th Printing, 1963 . Paperback. Good/None as Issued. Text/As New showing faint discoloration. Vintage 1963, 5th Printing. Softcover/NF w/edge rubs, small loss to upper front corner & light surface wear. Text edges, dyed green, with discoloration. Fiction. Collection of 6 short stories, set in the 1930's, starring the same protagonist? Autobiographical? Fiction? --- Yes to queries. Debut work by novelist & social activist Mary Therese McCarthy (1912- 1989) loosely combining 6 narratives first published in periodicals. Adventures of Margaret Sargent, or "Meg" --- a college graduate living in New York City in the 1930s. A young woman whose early marriage ends in divorce (her choice, disappointing both husband & illicit lover) --- an editorial assistant for a politically liberal magazine while mingling w/prestigious literary personages of the time (some of the characters are thinly veiled actual acquaintanceships with well-known… Leer más

New York, NY: HarperAudio, 1990. Set of 2 Cassettes . 2 Audio Cassettes/Boxed. New/None as Issued. Set of 2 Audio Cassetts; BRAND NEW. Box for the cassettes/Tired w/rubs & faint creasings, and taped. Author Tony Hillerman (1925 - 2008) published Coyote Waits in 1990; the cassettes were recorded in May, of the same year, in Albuquerque, NM. Running time is about 3 hours, abridged, wity music. The mythical coyote is always hungry, and always waiting and lurking. So, too, are humans cursed with ambition and greed. Navajo Tribal Police officer Jim Chee braves fire to rescue fellow office Delbert Nez from his burning car only find his friend is already dead from a fatal gun shot wound. Just then, an elderly shaman, with a bottle of whisky in one hand and the murder weapon in the other, totters on the scene! Hear the tale in the storyteller's voice and brought to life with his intonation! New cassettes in a tired box.

New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of surface wear. Upper text block dyed red. To front cover verso a tidy note suggesting this was in possession of an university, or, meant to be. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of THE BORDER TRILOGY by Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), (following ALL THE PRETTY HORSES of 1992, and before CITIES OF THE PLAIN of 1998). Narrative of the 1930's in which Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle --- Billy journeys across the borders to re-settle her back to Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd go south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, disappears w/a… Leer más

New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of discoloration & faint creasing to front inner flap. Trace brown spotting (acidic paper reaction to front & rear endpapers. Upper text edge dyed red. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of Cormac McCarthy's (1933-2023) THE BORDER TRILOGY (following All the Pretty Horses of 1992, and before Cities of the Plain of 1998) in which Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle; the two journey to re-settle her back Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd travel south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, to disappear w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 narrates… Leer más

New York, NY: Vintage International/Random House, 1994. First Edition, 5th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, 5th Printing. Softcover/Fine. Book Two of The Border Trilogy from Cormac McCarthy, (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. (1933 - 2023). celebrated American novelist. THE CROSSING is sequel to ALL THE PRETTY HORSES (1992), and, is followed by CITIES OF THE PLAIN (1998). This novel is set in the 1930's years of the Great Depression, when brothers Billy & Boyd were but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf on their ranch in New Mexico where wolves attacked cattle. Billy nurses the wolf for re-homing back to the mountains of Mexico --- this is the 1st of 3 "crossings". "Crossing" 2, tells of Billy & brother Boyd's trip south to recover horses stolen from their family's spread --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, to disappear w/a girl.… Leer más

New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace soiling to lower leading text edges to pgs 19-58. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/discoloration to inner side. Upper text edge dyed red, also with trace discoloration. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of Cormac McCarthy's (1933-2023) THE BORDER TRILOGY (sequel to All the Pretty Horses of 1992, and before Cities of the Plain of 1998). Set in the 1930's when Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle --- Billy journeys across the border to re-settle her back to Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd travel south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, and disappears w/a girl.… Leer más

New York, NY: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Glo Coalson (Illustrator). EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. No loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW w/folded corner to one page (likely from poor shelving). Illustrated DJ/NF; under library mylar. It is third grade and Daphne Eloise Slater loves school --- that until nasty Leonard begins calling her a giraffe for being taller than most. Misery sets in but soon a chance to be equally mean and nasty arises ... will Daphne retaliate and punish her tormentor in kind?

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1995. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Third novel by Sue Miller, well known for her sensitivity of emotional webs that bind parent and child, husbands and wives, and siblings to siblings. Portrait of an aged mother (the "distinguished guest') visit with her middle-aged son. The mother, Lily Maynard is the central character. A rather self-centered lady of 72, noted writer and advocate of social justice, and now incapacitated by Parkinson's disease, she takes temporary residence with son Alan while awaiting admission to a nursing home. Alan, who thought he had long bedded the emotional baggage of childhood, finds life is not composed of segmented compartments at all. Perhaps temporary American life styles too little time for love.

New York, NY: Fleming H. Revell, 1906. Special Limited Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Sound w/trace soiling & short lesion to lower spine on pg 289, & light foxing to text edges. Illustrated tan linen boards/VG w/fraying to upper/lower spine edge. DJ/None. Frontispiece w/tissue guard. A tale of early days of the Candian Rockies by the prolific cleric Charles William Gordon (1860 - 1937) who wrote fiction under the pen name of Ralph Connor. Story of how young Barney Boyle becomes a surgeon under the tutelage of old Doctor Ferguson and a mature man of worth.

Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1957. BOMC First Edition . Hardcover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. BOMC First Edition. Embossed, bi-color green boards/Fine. DJ/VG; sound w/short closed edge tears. A novel from Howard Swiggett (1891 - 1957), author of The Power and the Prize which MGM adapted to film. This is a post World War II story of big business, international intrigue & enduring marriage love. 366 pgs. Protagonist Stephen Lowry, formerly working with the Norwegian underground against the Nazis, returns home to join big business in New York as a "foreign specialist". The heroine is his lovely Estonian wife. The plot, full of the unexpected, is one of suspense. The title, "durable fire", bespeaks of Lowry's love for his wife (and her search for her missing family) that steadies him and sustains him as he joins the vast industrial & financial world.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1967. Offprint . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/faint creasings to lower left corner of softcover. New Zealand-born sinologist & scholar of traditional Chinese vernacular fiction, Professor Patrick Dewes Hanan (1927 - 2014), Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Director of the Harvard-Yenching Library. 207 pgs. Essays addresses critical analysis approaches to pre-1550 vernacular short stories od mid-Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644) in contrast to those prevalent during those of the classical tales that have survived from the T'ang Dynasty despite the intervening rule of the Mongolian Yuan period

New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House, 2007. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First published 2006 in hard cover, Houghton Mifflin; this is a paperback issue by Vintage International/Random House, 2007, First Edition, First Printing. Penn/Faulker Award of 2007. An intimate yet universal of one man's journey through life ... as he saw it himself. Set in contemporary New Jersey, the novel begins with the funernal of the protagonist, and ends with his death.

Osprey, FL: Beacham Publishing, 2000. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. DJ/NF. First in a projected series (C.S Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia to follow) of study guides in young adult fiction. A guided introduction to the analytical skills of literary criticism.

New York, NY: Avon Books, 1990. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. 1990 First Avon paperback printing. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/trace edge wear. Novel by Edward Paul Abbey (1927 - 1989) written shortly before his death. Best known for The Monkey Wrench Gang and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire. This novel is loosely based on his own life. Portions of this tale were first published elsewhere. Abandoned by his 3rd wife for a computer science professor, anti-hero Henry Holyoak Lightcap, penniless, shoots his refrigerator (that symbol of man's progress), quits Arizona to return to his ancestral roots in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania. Traveling in an old pick-up with his dying dog & memories, he calls on old friends enroute, visits an Indian reservation, and many out-of-the-way bars, all the while reviewing triumphs & follies of his life. Humorously and artfully told reflections.

London, UK: Penguin, 1989. First Edition, 27th Printing . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/margin discoloration. Soft cover/NF w/light wear & sticker removal loss to lower back corner. Collection of 15 short stories of New Zealand by Katherine Mansfield, pseudonym of Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1888-1923). First published 1922 in literary magazines; this is Penguin reissue. The early 20th century setting for the stories is loosely based upon Mansfield's childhood home in Wellington and carries autobiographical undertones. "The Garden Party", the title story, centers on an annual garden party held by the well-to-do Sheridan family. During its elaborate preparations, news arrives of an accidental, tragic the death of a working-class man living in the poorer part of the village. Told through young Laura Sheridan's reaction to the day. She did so look forward to the party; finding her family at large simply brushing off the tradegy by assuming the man was drunk,… Leer más

New York, NY: Fawcett Crest , 1967. Fawcett First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; sound w/edge wear, creasings to spine, soiling w/humidity staining. 4th novel of John Simmons Barth (1930 - ). Allegorical, comic rendering of the Cold War set on a college campus, a university, or, a university that is the universe. Tale of George Giles (sired by a computer w/a virgin) who, raised as goat, rises to be Grand Tutor of New Tammany College. Challenging, complex novel triggered by the Cold War. Volume preceded w/the "Publisher's Disclaimer" and "Cover-Letter to the Editors & Publisher" passing off authorship & editorial responsibilities to the computer WESCAC, and, ends w/a Postape, Postscript to the Postape & Footnote to the Postscript to the Postape, all further questioning the morality & veracity of the unorthodox, in poor taste to many, contents. 766 pgs in 2 volumes, each in 3 reels. Strong copy of… Leer más

New York, NY: Avon, 1963. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW, showing trace margin discoloration. Illustrated soft cover/VG; strong & sound w/faint creasings to upper front corner, slight slant to spine, & showing light discoloration. A witty and satirical novel set in a summer of war-time London from award-winning Scottish novelist Dame Muriel Spark (1918 - 2006). A tale of the loves and dreams of a group of girls with one Paris dress to share.