Search Results: Fiction from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: St Martin's Griffin, 2002. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace creasing to upper front corner. First Edition, First Printing. Anthology of 31 stories set in Alaska, past and present. Selection includes wrtings of Washington Irving, John Muir, Jack London, and Gary Paulsen. as well as of editor Spike Walker. Narratives arranged in 10 sectors: 1, Living on the Edge; 2, The Iditarod; 3, The Great Explorers; 4, Gold Rush; 5, Natural Wonders; 6, Natural Wonders; 7, Black Gold; 8, Modern Adventures; 9, Alaskan Voices; and 10, Don't Laugh ... It's Not Funny.

New York, NY: Atheneum, 1978. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Ray Cruz (Illustrator). Text/As New. Illustrated yellow linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. It is a matter of wealth (money), a matter of being at least in the same good circumstances of one's older brother, and a matter of now having no more than bus tokens in one's pocket. Would that not drive one to ponder what it takes to be VERY rich? Author, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher Judith Viorst (1931-) is known for her Alexander series of short stories. Young readers should emerge with a keener sense of decimals. Fine copy less dust jacket.

New York, NY: Signet/New American Library, 1979. Reprint of 1979 . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/faint margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; strong, shelf worn, w/humidity stains to front & back cover. First published 1903; this is a Signet reprint of 1979. It is said author, key 19th century writer author of literary realism, Henry James, (1843 - 1916) regarded this novel one of his "most perfect" works. Of an intellectual family, son of Henry James, Sr., brother of philosopher & psychologist William James, and diarist Alice James. This novel is a is social commentary contrasting social values of the New World with that of the past. A tale of a widowed financee, bringing home her wayward son, Chad Newsome, reputedly entrapped in an sordid affair. Strong copy despite flaws.

New York, NY: Harper & Bros, 1907. First Edition, First Thus . Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/Near New, Bright & Clean. Vintage 1907 Edition. Embossed blue-grey linen boards with heraldic arms/NF w/light edge & corner tip rubs. Trace opening to front hinge; structurally sound. A novel by California author Gertrude [Franklin] Atherton (1857 - 1948) whose many novels include a series depicting life in her native state from Spanish times to the present. This work is set in the year 1904, ending w/the day fire consumed San Francisco, as the heroine watches the Fairmont, a last building to catch fire, send up "a steady square volume of curling white smoke" even while its windows still glistened "like plates of brass". Fine copy.

New York, NY: Illustrated Editions Co., 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A. Zaidenberg (Illustrator). Text/Brand New & Bright. Vintage 1940 English Language Edition. Gilt embossed bi-color boards/NF w/trace wear to corner tips. DJ/None. Light discoloration to front/rear covers verso. Text blocks dyed red. Novel, ranked w/War and Peace, as outstanding work from Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy(1828 - 1910). First serialized (1873 - 1877) in The Russian Messenger & published in book form 1878. Set against realistic backdrop of rapid, liberal socio-eco-political transformations in Russian under Tsar Alexander II of The 1861 Emancipation which initiated judicial & military reforms, elected local governments (Zemstvo), developmental changes in railroads, banks, industry, telegraph,leading to rise of new business elites & decline of ld landed aristocracy, a freer press, awakening of public opinion, the Pan-Slavism movement, and military conflict with the Ottoman Empire in 1876 --- an… Read More

New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine/Ballatine, 1998. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, 1st Printing. Autobiography of wise & worldly cat Foudini M. Cat written for the younger feline Grace who looks to him for counsel. Foudini was born on the streets & early orphaned. This narrative was chronicled in the pampered setting provided by Warm and Pest (their owners), whom both Foudini & Grace manipulate adeptly. Narrator Foudini shares his philosophic musings along with his adventures, as well historic cat rituals such as Flying Feathered Feasts, spiritual encounters with ghost cats of Cleopatra and Freud, and, his deep friendship with Sam the Dog. A delight.

San Diego, CA: Harvest Book/Harcourt Brace & Co, 1996. First Edition, First Pinting . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Belle Yang (Author & Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright. 1996 First Edition, Printing "A". Illustrated softcover/NF; w/faint creasing to lower front corner tip. Taiwan born, Californian Belle Yang (1960 -) is an artist, author, graphic novelist and children's book writer. After graduation from Univ.of CA, Santa Cruz, she spent 3 years in Beijing, China to be present during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. This, on her return home, her first book, was completed in 1994. In Chinese, "Baba" is simply "Papa" in English. This is biography of Belle Yang's father, Joseph Yang (1928- ), born in Manchuria, coming of age in northern China in the 1930s to 1940s, migrated to Taiwan before the U.S. Life of an heir to the prominent House of Yang of the northeastern extremity of the Great Wall, who knew of early Japanese invasion,… Read More

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1991. Reprint Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & BRIGHT w/faint discoloration to endpapers. Softcover/VG; strong & sound w/edge rubs & light surface wear. Anthology. A novel set in a Southern town and 6 short stories from novelist, playwright, essayist & poet Carson McCullers (1917 - 1967). First published 1951; this is a 1991paper re-issue of the original hardcover edition. 152 pgs, the stories & where first published are: 1, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Harper's Bazaar, 1951, adapted to a play in 1963, then to film in 1991 starring Vanessa Redgrave); 2, Wunderkind (1936); 3, The Jockey (The New Yorker, 1941); 4, Madame Zilensky & the King of Finland" (The New Yorker, 1941); 5, The Sojourner (Mademoiselle, 1950); 6, A Domestic Dilemma (New York Post, magazine, 1951); and 7, A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud (Harper's Bazaar, 1942).

New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2003. Reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace creasing to upper back corner. Fast moving adventure, carried forth by life's currents of these United States. Kentucky heroine Taylor Greer heads west (in a 1955 Volkswagen) to Arizona with her "inherited" three-year-old American Indian girl dubbed Turtle. Fine copy

San Francisco, CA: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2003. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Collection of sensitive and revealing short stories of girlhood in modern America. A portrait, through vignettes, of the a little more timid and little less fabulous of girls walking the halls of today's public schools.

New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1991. 1st Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage Penguin Books, 1991 First Edition, 2nd Printing. Softcover/NF w/faint creasing to lower back corner. A semi-autobiographical novel. First major work of Iowa-born writer, novelist & teacher Wallace Stegner (1909 - 1993), often quoted for saying the agenda of fiction is to tell the truth. Writtn in 1943, the title is named after the folk song "Big Rock Candy Mountain", about a mythical paradise, and set in the hard times in America after World War I. Protagonist Bo Mason, with wife & two sons in tow, drifts from town to town in the West Coast in search of the big, rock candy mountain where blue birds sing & sparkling lemonade gushes forth from springs --- the elusiveness of Arcadia feeds tension among wife & sons. Self & mutual abuse within the family rise under continual poverty. 563 pgs, written in 10 Sections. A saga when socio-economic systems… Read More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Reprint of 1916 . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New. Illustrated dark-blue linen boards/Good; strong & sound w/color loss to lower front & lower back edge from water damage. DJ/None. PO name on front cover verso. First published 1886. Written by author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. A sensitive and enduring story of a child born on Christmas Day, and namesake of the day's joyous songs. Young Carol arrived in the world on the wings of song, and is carried off to rest on the same. A life too short but every so rich --- begun in joyous generosity and remained true.

New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1993. First Edition, First Printing First Thus. Paperback. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/a whisper of discoloration to margins. 1993 First Edition, First Printing. Debut novel by native born Chinese-American author Fae Ng (1956 -). Set in 1960's through 1990's. Social challenges of 1st & 2nd generation immigrants from rural, Southern China to Chinatown, San Francisco. The story of three American-born sisters, all struggling to find inner peace. The central event is the death of 2nd sister Ona, who on drugs, jumps off the 13th floor. 194 pgs in 14 chapters narrated by the eldest sister Lelia, a restaurant hostess. Told in simple, powerful prose, largely of the present, though not in chronological order. The family, still traditional, is an extended one in structure in which prized expectations of the world left behind are alive, and often collide with those acquired in America to where they wanted to live --- touching is a stepfather who… Read More

New York, NY: Harper & Bros, 1923. First Edition, Printing L-X . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Frederic Remington (Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage 1923, First Edition. Taupe linen boards w/illustrated paste-down & black linen backstrap/Good w/loss to upper/lower spine edges & surface loss to upper backstrap & rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. PO name, gift inscription & doodling to fEP. Frontis: Indian Scout. Collection of Native American Indian short stories by American poet, essayist & writer [Hannibal] Hamlin Garland (1860 - 1940), Pulitzer prize (1921) penned between years 1890 to 1905. Illustrated by paintings of Frederic Remington (1861 - 1909).

New York, NY: Harper & Bros, 1923. First Edition, Printing G-B . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Frederic Remington (Illustrator). Text/Bright, clean & sound. Vintage 1923 First Edition. Taupe linen boards with illustrated paste-down and black cloth backstrap/Good w/loss to upper/lower spine edges & surface loss to upper backstrap w/fraying along black linen backstrap edges; marked rubs to corner tips; and push to lower front corner. DJ/None. Frontis: Indian Scout. Collection of Native American Indian short stories by American poet, essayist & writer [Hannibal] Hamlin Garland (1860 - 1940), Pultizer prize winner of 1921. Illustrated w/35 works of Frederic Remington (1861 - 1909), the stories were penned between the years 1890 - 1905.

New York, NY: Warner Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. BRAND NEW Copy with PO on fEP. First Edition, stated First Printing of Feb, 1995. A novel about Jack and Linda under Texas skies, of Vietnam and the Mid-west, and an aged man still searching for freedom.

Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue, 1915. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New. Vintage 1915, First Edition, First Thus. Illustrated boards/VG; strong & sound w/light edge wear, surface rubs & soiling. DJ/None. Short closed tear to fEP. Early American Boy Scout Master & writer of juvenile adventure books, George Harvey Ralphson (1879 - 1940), was best known for his "Boy Scout" series of adventures written on the eve of the World War I. His books inspired patriotic feelings among many young. This volume is the story of eighteen year old motorcycle-riding Boy Scouts. Black Bear and Wolf, patrolling New York City, discover a trove of hidden sticks of dynamite which leads to their enrollment in the aviation corps of the French Army Patrol, and from France to Belgium!

New York, NY: Scholastic, 1996. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. Donna Diamond (Illustrator). BRAND NEW Copy. Stated First Scholastic Edition, First Printing, September 1996. First published 1978, and winner of the John Newberry Award of the same year. A remarkably rich narrative of friendship between a boy and a girl, both fifth graders. Brought together by both being swift-of-foot with a great for running, not a promising start since competition is involved, and the two come from very different family backgrounds. In time they build together a magical kingdom in the woods accessable only by swinging on rope over water ... one day the "bridge" fails, and a twosome become one. An eloquent and reassuring book in face of tragedy who strikes young and old alike. Fine copy of a fine book well worthy of reprinting.

New York, NY: Signet/New American Library, 1960. Printing of 1962 . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Softcover/VG w/light edge & surface wear. Anthology of short stories from "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, 1876 - 1916). In addition to Call of the Wild, the 5 other tales are: 1, Diable - A Dog; 2, An Odyssey of the North; 3, To the Man on Trail; 4, To Build a Fire; and 5, Love of Life. Lead story, Call of the Wild is set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as was White Fang. Depiction of individualistic struggles, primitive violence & brutal social behavior of both men & animals. The story of how Buck, a huge, 4 year-old half-Saint Bernard & half-Scottish shepherd dog, living a life of ease in CA's Santa Clara Valley is transported to the wild open North, survives hardships & ultimately joins a pack of wolves, and, as legend has it, sires a new breed of wild dogs.

Paris, France: Flammarion, 1984. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace wear to corner tips of softcover. French language text. Claire Lenoir and Other Unusual Tales by Auguste-Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe, count of Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1838 - 1889, Paris), French poet, dramatist, and short-story writer. Anthology of "cruel tales" writen circa 1883, with reminders of Edgar Allan Poe, satirizing bourgeois morality often with elements of horror, even sadism, & elements of shock. Fantastic fiction in which scientist Dr. Tribulat Bonhomet figures, as in Claire Lenoir. 282 pgs. Tales include: 1, Claire Lenoir; 2, The Secret of the Scaffold; 3, Catalina; 4, Killer of Swans; 5, Game of Grace; 6, Fantasies of Mr Redoux; 7, The Heroism of Doctor Hallidonhill; 8, Lovers of Toledo; 9, Ed Mhoin!; 10, Unexpected Approval; 11, Tale of Summer's End; 12, Delights of a Good Deed; 13, L'Inquiéteur; 14, Torture from Hope; and 15, L'Etonnant couple Moutonnet.