All Other Fiction
All Other Fiction
The world is full of wonderful fiction, and all our other listings of fiction that is not either a modern first edition or a mystery are in this section. Nothing is more satisfying that reading a new work by a beloved author, or finding a new author that transports us believably to another reality. If we don’t have your favorites listed, email us and ask!
Illustrations/Photography by: Austen, John
Published by The Heritage Press, New York
Edition: First
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Fine
Comments: Arnold Bennett was an amazingly prolific writer. Not only did he produce 34 novels, he wrote short stories, successful plays and later silent movie scripts, popular self-help books, was an active journalist, and even briefly ran the British Ministry of Information during World War I. He was one of the best selling authors of the late 19th/early 20th century. His reputation declined after his death in 1935 but has been reevaluated in recent years. Yet this book, "The Old Wives' Tale," originally published in 1908, which follows the lives of two very different sisters from their youth into old age, has always been considered one of his very best works, even by his critics. This is a particularly lovely edition, and in excellent condition. The cover has a floral pattern reminiscent of William Morris. There are full-page color drawings throughout, as well as half-page black-and-white drawings at the beginning of every chapter. The text block is tight and there are no marks, creases, or tears on the pages. The only damage is slight, where what appears to have been a book plate was removed from the inside of the back cover. There is a bit of confusion within the industry about the copyright date: The Heritage Press was originally created as the Limited Editions Club by George Macy to produce fine editions of reprints of classic works. By the time this work was published, Macy had dropped the "limited editions" part of its remit and changed the imprint's name but the fineness of the books it published remained. The book itself says the Macy copyrighted the book in 1940, but the Library of Congress, acknowledging that in its catalog, says the Heritage Press published it in1947. Regardless, you can be assured of getting a distinguished copy with this book. See our photos.
Seller Inventory #: 0000477
Illustrations/Photography by: Galanis, Demetrios
Published by The Heritage Press
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New
Comments: The classic Greek play, in a wonderfully elegant edition (as The Heritage Press consistently produces), and a copy that appears to be new. The Greek text appears on the verso pages with an English verse translation by Francis Storr on the facing recto pages. Two-tone wood engravings, some full-page, that both illustrated specific characters and incidents from the play and more general classical themes, are scattered throughout. An essay by American playwright Thornton Wilder introduces the whole thing. There is no copyright in the book itself or even in its Library of Congress catalog entry, but the original illustrations by Demetrios Galanis, archived at the University of Texas, are dated 1955. The Heritage Press appears to have released several different editions of "Oedipus the King"--this one has a black cloth binding with a rectangular gilt embossed image of two facing Greek (not Egyptian) sphinxes in a gold slipcase. This is the by far the best copy we've seen on the market. See our photos.
Seller Inventory #: 0000484
Published in 1995 by Running Press, Philadelphia
ISBN: 1561385840
Binding: Softcover
Condition: New
Comments: Rare. This Running Press Postcard Book, published in 1995, features 30 color postcard images of the X-Men: Rogue, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Cyclops, and more. The postcards are a true celebration of X-Men comics, in an attractive, now out-of-print collection. A must for Marvel collectors and X-Men lovers. The compilation of X-Men illustrations in this book reveal the allure of the X-Men and the excellence of the art depicting them. New and unopened, with all 30 postcards fully intact.
Seller Inventory #: 0000343
Illustrations/Photography by: Enrique Breccia
Published in 2003 by DC Comics, New York
ISBN: 1401201105
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket:
Comments: H.P. Lovecraft is renowned for his strange, supernatural, and horrific inventions, most notably the demon Cthulu, a terrifying enormous tentacled creature who has been firmly entrenched as one of the ultimate monsters in popular culture. Indeed, Lovecraft's work has had a major influence on horror, science fiction, and fantasy, inspiring some of the best writers and filmmakers of our time. Relatively unknown during his lifetime, Lovecraft's life and the tragedies that marked it have long been a subject of curiosity. In this graphic novel, screenwriter Hans Rodionoff, comics writer Keith Giffen (known for DC Comics Legion of Super-Heroes, Justice League, and Lobo), and comic artist Enrique Breccia take up an imaginative exploration of Lovecraft's life, one in which he is haunted by terrifying creatures, which may be troubled visions or may be real. What Publishers' Weekly calls "a grotesque and disturbing visual experience" is an impressive work of horror, fantasy, and biography. In December 2019, it was announced that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of Game of Thrones, will adapt this book into a film for Warner Brothers.
Seller Inventory #: 0000344
Published in 1949 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine; slightly cocked
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: Good: price clipped, some tearing at edges.
Comments: Ogden Nash, the celebrated American master of light verse, published his sixth poetry collection in 1949: this is a later printing of the first edition of that collection. The book is full of over 100 delightful, humorous poems. It also features a dust jacket designed by Maurice Sendak, and an attractive red cover with gilt lettering and design.
Seller Inventory #: 0000380
Published in 2012 by Universe Publishing, New York
ISBN: 009780800000000
Binding: Spiral-bound
Condition: As New; minor shelfwear
Comments: This collector's item for Star Trek fans is a completely unused 2013 engagement calendar, filled with photos and quotes of beloved Star Trek characters. With the images and quotes spanning many Star Trek series and movies, it is delightful to flip through and remember all of the scenes depicted. A fun celebration of Star Trek that will be prized by fans and collectors.
Seller Inventory #: 0000382
Published in 2016 by Custom House, Harper Collins, New York, NY
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Binding: Hardcover, new.
Condition: New.
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: New.
Seller Inventory #: 0000405
Illustrations/Photography by: Hugh Thomson
Acid-free paper, surpassing standards for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
Published in 1984 by Longmeadow Press, USA
Condition: Near fine; unread. Minnor imperfection as seen in photo, faint smudge.
Comments: Handsome edition by Longmeadow Press. Illustrations by the noted late 19th century illustrator Hugh Thomson, founder of the "Cranford" school of illustration. Dark red boards, raised bands. Gilt lettering and design on front cover and spine in perfect condition. A crisp, pleasing volume.
Seller Inventory #: 0000407
Published in 2004 by Alfaguara, Mexico
Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover with dust jacket
Condition: Very good. Text block is without markings. Soiled on edges. Small water stain in lower right, as shown in photos.
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: Very good.
Comments: First edition with scarce dust jacket. Fuentes, a Mexican author, was one of the best novelists of the twentieth century, and as such, he was internationally recognized and the recipient of many awards. This volume is a collection of six "Gothic" tales, or stories of the supernatural. This unusual binding format is a softcover with gateway folds, accompanied by a dust jacket, as issued.
Seller Inventory #: 0000421
Illustrations/Photography by: Edward Gorey
Published in 2006 by Pomegranate Communications, Petaluma, CA
ISBN: 009780800000000
Edition: Pomegranate, Revised, 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: Fine
Comments: John Updike and Edward Gorey together in a work designed for the most cynical among us - or perhaps those just tired of the commercialization and over-hype of Christmas. In this miniature book, Updike provides priceless insights: on Santa - "funny rummy smell" and "there is a point where altruism becomes sick"; reindeer - "Fur possibly laden with disease-bearing ticks"; elves - "sweatshop conditions in what must be one of the gloomiest climates in the world." With Gorey's idiosyncratic illustrations on every page!
Seller Inventory #: 0000430
by Donald McCaig
Audio books can be quite difficult to find in all but the latest dime-a-dozen thrillers. We really like our tangible, we-own-it audio versions of our favorite books, that we can carry around as we listen, and replay from time to time. But unabridged audio books of good literature or worthwhile non-fiction are just scarce and expensive. That's why we were pleased to find Rhett Butler's People in this unabridged audio book edition - and it has 18 hours of play time! The book, of course, is the authorized sequel to Gone With the Wind.
Published in 2007 by Audio Renaissance, St Martin's Press, New York
Edition: Audio Book CD
Binding: Audio Book CD
Condition: New
Comments: New, still in shrink wrap.
by Annie Proulx
This collection of short stories includes the original "Brokeback Mountain," on which the Academy-winning script was based. Proulx, a best-selling and multiple-award winning author, is also known for the (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award) novel, The Shipping News. Read by Francis Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, and Campbell Scott. Running time about 5.5 hours.
Published by Encore, Audio Division of Simon & Schuster, New York
Binding: Audio Book
Condition: New, still in shrink wrap
Comments: We like to own, not "rent," our audio books, but the CD's are getting increasingly hard to find. Today's ridiculous Amazon "auto-pricing" for this audio book is either $233 or $782, which of course has nothing to do with actual value and everything to do with scarcity. We price fairly for our clients.
by John Buchan
This book has such an unusual back story, is such "a ripping good yarn," its author was such a fascinating figure, and this edition is so handsome, that it would make a magnificent gift for a spy thriller or war story fan - but only if you can part with it. Let's start with the author: John Buchan was an Oxford-educated Scottish writer, historian, and politician. As a writer, he is best known for Thirty-Nine Steps, a WWI spy thriller published in 1915. An influential, well-regarded public figure, and he was appointed as Governor General of Canada in 1935 and elevated to the peerage as Baron Tweedsmuir. (Thirty-Nine Steps was also adapted for the screen in 1935 by Hitchcock.) He had always been known for his personal integrity, and he took his duties as Governor General very seriously, traveling the length and breath of Canada, including the Arctic, and he advocated that the strongest nations were those made up of different ethnicities - a highly progressive view for its time. Thirty-Nine Steps introduced Richard Hannay, his protagonist, who works for the British Foreign Office. Greenmantle is the second book featuring Hannay, although it is not a sequel but a stand-alone novel. Greenmantle is lauded as a "cracking WWI story" and a "ripping yarn." Scroll through the reviews in GoodReads - it is near universally praised for its characters, insight into WWI history, adventure, and suspense - you can't put it down. But as many have noted - another fascinating feature of this book is that is was written during WWI - not after - when the outcomes and subsequent events of the Great War were still unknown, so the book functions as something of an alternate history. It also has perhaps the only fictional account of the Russian front, which is portrayed sympathetically. This backstory is one of the reasons we love antiquarian books so much. Instead of a new pot-boiler, churned out by the dozens in writing "factories" under a best-selling author's name (you know who we are talking about), we have a novel authored by a fascinating historical figure in his own right, we are reading contemporaneous historical details of the Front, and the author can actually write!
Published in 1988 (reprint of 1916 first edition) by The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, Baltimore, MD
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: new
Comments: This edition is far from the typical paperback of this novel. This hardcover, in new condition, was published in 1988 by the Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company as part of its Great War Series. Sadly, the firm has since closed. So new copies of this edition - a handsome hardcopy - are uncommon. In the first of our two copies, an insert printed by N&A Publishing is included.
Henry Seton Merriman (the pen name for Hugh Stowell Scott) is one of those authors who enjoyed enormous popularity in his day--the late 19th century--but have completely dropped off the radar in ours. He started out his career as an underwriter for Lloyd’s of London, but quickly started traveling and writing. By the time of his early death at the age of only 41 in 1903, he had written 41 novels, many of them best sellers. One, The Sowers, went through thirty editions in the UK alone. At the same time, despite his prolific output, Merriman was known for the care he took with his writing and and was well-regarded by contemporary critics. A review of Dross in the American literary journal Book Notes when it was published in 1899 called it, “A perfectly constructed novel, containing dramatic and even tragic situations without any revolting details….The book presents romance, humor, intrigue and detective work, while touching lightly upon the whole gamut of human emotions.”
Published in 1899 by H.S. Stone, Chicago
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good
Comments: Our copy is a first edition, bound in red cloth, with the title, the author’s name, and an elaboration of the publisher’s mark stamped in white on both the front and back covers so that they are identical. The title, author’s name, publisher, and city are stamped in white on the spine. The pages are gilt on top and deckled on the front and bottom. It is amply illustrated with black and white plates. Tanned on the end papers. 3/8 inch tear to upper spine. Small stain on edge of two leaves. Binding tight, printing bright and pages unmarked. Nice reading copy of a nicely designed book.
Seller Inventory #: 0000208
Illustrations/Photography by: Dr. Seuss
Published in 1986 by Random House, Inc., New York
ISBN: 0394551907
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: Very good; price-clipped
Comments: Dr. Seuss, the famed children's book author and illustrator known for some of the most famous children's books of all time ("The Cat In The Hat," "Horton Hears a Who," "The Lorax," etc.) published this book on his 82nd birthday. Directing the book toward "obsolete children," his pejorative term for adults, Dr. Seuss uses his classic rhyming and whimsical illustration style to bemoan the experience of getting older and being subjected to endless medical treatments. Dr. Seuss' delightful illustrations of absurd hospital contraptions and departments such as "Optoglymics," "Dermoglymics," and "Nooronetics" will have you laughing right along.
Seller Inventory #: 0000254
Published in 1945 by William Heinemann Ltd, London
Edition: First edition, first printing
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good; prior bookseller annotation on endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Pages in excellent condition given inferior wartime paper.
Comments: The British first edition, first printing, of Steinbeck's 1945 Cannery Row, one of his most celebrated novels. This British first-edition copy features bright orange boards and an affirmation that it is "produced in complete conformity with the authorised economy standards" during the war.
Seller Inventory #: 0000268
Published in 1993 by TSR, Inc., Lake Geneva
ISBN: 1560766700
Edition: First edition, first printing
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New; unread
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: New; minor shelf wear
Comments: Rare first edition, first printing, in new condition. Set in the Dungeons & Dragons world of Ravenloft, this book details the rise of Count Strahd von Zarovich, darklord of Barovia, and how he became a vampire. Dungeons & Dragons fans familiar with Ravenloft will delight at this backstory of Strahd, and fans of the vampire genre will enjoy P.N. Elrod's compelling storytelling.
Seller Inventory #: 0000269
Published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
ISBN: 0521824184
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near fine due to small remainder mark on bottom.
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: Very good; shelf wear
Comments: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen is the first fully annotated scholarly edition of Jane Austen's works.This edition of Persuasion includes a 62 page introduction detailing the historical, biographical, and literary context for the book, as well as 59 pages of notes to the text providing explanatory material. It also includes a 7 page chronology, and two appendices: "Cancelled chapters of Persuasion," featuring images of the original manuscript and a transcription; and "'Biographical Notice of the Author' by Henry Austen," a biography by Jane Austen's brother which appeared in the original publication of Persuasion. The wealth of material in these pages explain why Cambridge calls their collection "the definitive edition for the twenty-first century." The book also features an attractive cover with a gilt facsimile of Jane Austen's signature, and a ribbon bookmark.
Seller Inventory #: 0000304
Published in 1972 by Simon and Schuster, New York
ISBN: 009780700000000
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near fine
Comments: Near fine first edition of the English boarding school classic. Text block is in pristine condition. See our photos.
Seller Inventory #: 0000464