Fiction
A Superior Death
New York: G.P Putnam's Sons (1994), 1994. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [1], 12-303, [1] pp. Green paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Traces of shelf wear, else Fine. More
Track of the Cat
New York: G.P Putnam's Sons (1993), 1993. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-238, [2] pp. Quarter black paper over green paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Barr's first mystery. A very..... More
The Middle Kingdom
New York: Pocket Books (1991), 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-279, [1] pp. Quarter blue cloth over yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of jacket. Three tiny spots of discoloration on textblock. More
Ship Fever and Other Stories
New York: W.W. Norton & Company [1996], 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 12-254, [2] pp. Half white cloth over white paper boards with copper lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $21.00 on front flap of jacket. Minor wear to the edges of the boards, else FIne..... More
Chimera
New York: Random House [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 4-308, [6] pp. Dark yellow cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedown. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award in 1973. A touch of wrinkling..... More
Lost in the Funhouse; Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x, [5], 4-201, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 005b. Very near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with some age..... More
Sabbatical
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1982], 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 10-366, [2] pp. Quarter navy cloth over tan paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
The Watch; Stories
New York: W W Norton & Company [1989], 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 13-190, [2] pp. Half teal cloth over dark blue paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on front flap of jacket. More
The Taste of Blood
London: William Heinemann LTD, 1956. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 248, [2] pp. Black cloth boards with red lettering on the spine. Price sticker with "5/- Net" covering original price on front flap of dust jacket. Signed "With love from Denzil" on free front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very..... More
Spella Ho
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-382, [2] pp. Light green cloth with bright green lettering on the front board and spine; green topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. An early novel from a prolific pastoral writer, Bates' work..... More
Air Service Boys over the Atlantic or The Longest Flight on Record
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Co. [1920], 1920. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 1-218 pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Toning to the leaves; jacket shows minor edge wear and a small tape repair to the reverse. More
The Folk of the Air
New York: Ballantine Books (1986), 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-330 pp. Quarter purple cloth over purple paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Cover painting by Barclay Shaw. Front board bowed with a small bump to..... More
Moving Mars
New York: TOR (1993), 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 12-448 pp. Quarter red cloth over purple paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first edition. A Near Fine book with a tiny push to the top..... More
Queen of Angels
New York: Warner Books (1990), 1990. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-420, [4] pp. Quarter black cloth over orange paper boards, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book in a like dust jacket with a bit of edge wear. More
Distortions
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 14-283, [5] pp. Quarter brown cloth over light brown paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 002b. Beattie's second book, a collection of short stories. Very..... More
Dream of Fair to Middling Women
Dublin: The Black Cat Press (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vii-xvii, [3], 241, [3] pp. Blue cloth with green lettering on the front board and spine. Edited by Eoin O'Brien and Edith Fournier. Foreward by Eoin O'Brien. More
The Unnamable
New York: Grove Press Inc. [1958], 1958. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-179, [5] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the French by the author. The final book in Beckett's..... More
The Romance of Tristan & Iseult
New York: The Heritage Press [1960], 1960. Later edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [3], 3-172, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over patterned purple paper boards with gold lettering blocked in black on the spine; all edges decoratively speckeld. Housed in a light purple slipcase. Illustrated with a color frontispiece..... More
Zero db and Other Stories
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-179, [1] pp. Navy cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Very near fine book in a jacket with a hint or two of edge wear..... More
The Secret Lemonade Drinker
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 152, [2] pp. Quarter dark yellow cloth over light yellow paper boards with green lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The author's first novel. A small dampstain to the crown..... More