Search Results: Fiction from Ainsworth Books

New York: Gallery Books. Very Good. 2012. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 1451627297 . Card covers show light shelf wear, creasing.; A tight solid book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 849 pages; "In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it." .

New York: Forge Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0765322609 . As new; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Aztec; 9.2 X 6.5 X 1.6 inches; 448 pages; "In the arid canyonlands of Mexico the race is on for the ultimate end-of-the-world codex—the final 1000-year-old prophesy of the god-king, Quetzalcoatl, who ruled Mexico 1000 years ago. Rita Critchlow and Cooper Jones hunt for that sacred codex in those scorching desert canyons, while 500 years ago, Pacal, a young slave-scholar, sets out on the same deadly quest. He too must find those apocalyptic writings, knowing that his era—the Age of the Aztecs—may well come to an end if he does not find them. " .

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. First British Edition. Hardcover. 0718112954 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages; Only light edge wear, some damage near top back edge of DJ. Dust jacket in Mylar. DJ unclipped. A tight bright book. .

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0670102083 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, previous owner's name on FFEP, price-clipped. Front flap creased ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Yellow topstain ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 442 pages; "Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England, engaged to a wonderful girl and who is suddenly drafted to a war he disapproves of. What is duty here, what is self-interest, what is cowardice? Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man of the title, is accident-prone, also prone to bring disaster to his friend and relations. He blames fate. But are we not all accidental, one of his victims asks. Fate and accidents make deep moral dilemmas for the characters in the long and complex tale." .

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First English Edition. Hardcover. Light discoloration and wear of glossy dust jacket, only slight wear, slight soil of page edges ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Wraparound jacket art ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages; "Works by the contemporary German novelist portray Nazi soldiers facing defeat and certain death in Hungary and at the Polish Front" .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1938. Omnibus. Hardcover. Boards show light shelf wear, light soiling. School prize bookplate on FFEP ; A tight solid book, beige cloth covered boards with black and blue lettering front and spine. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 1013 pages; This omnibus edition contains the following 4 books featuring the character Sir Edward Leithen: The Power-House (originally pub 1916), The Dancing Floor (pub 1926), John McNab (pub 1925) and The Gap in the Curtain ( pub 1932) as well as the short story Sing a Song of Sixpence (1928) from The Runagates Club. .

New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show shelf wear, tape stain on FFEP. mild musty smell.; A tight solid book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 363 pages; "here is the brand new collection of the inimitable Mr H's selection of macabre and horrifying tales, presenting 20 short stories, 3 novelettes and 1 complete novel" by authors such as Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Sayers, Julian May and Richard Matheson. .

Toronto: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. Fifteenth Printing. Hardcover. 0679450041 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Decorative stamp by previous owner (doesn't distract) on front free end paper. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.6 X 6.8 X 1.5 inches; 639 pages; "A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the… Read More

Toronto: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. 0679450041 . Some wear to DJ extremities.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.6 X 6.8 X 1.5 inches; 639 pages; "A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of… Read More

Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1915. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards, gilt stamped with titles on front cover, gilt on spine worn, corners lightly bumped, light wear head & tail of spine, gift notation on FFEP, light erasure of front pastedown. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact; 404 pages .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears, chipping and soiling. Back of DJ is missing approx. 1" - 1.5" along top edge. Boards show some shelf wear, page edges show spotting. Previous owner's name on front pastedown with light soil on front endpaper. A couple of pages at beginning show soiling ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages .

Ottawa: Borealis Press. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0888878877 . Signed by Author; DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears and chipping, some archivally repaired.; Signed by author on the half-title page. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; "Annie Kinnikinck, the central character in this novel set in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), is a young Haida recently promoted to supervisor of the operating room in the small hospital on Moresby Island. She struggles desperately to raise the consciousness of the Indian women on the Islands. She is faced with antagonism and racial prejudice by her white contemporaries as well as the Indians themselves who feel that "no way can an Indian supervise the white employees without becoming more white than the whites themselves," .

Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1928. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages; Dust jacket in Mylar. DJ is worn, chipped with tape repaired tears, spine faded. Green cloth boards, clean, unmarked. An American woman married into an English family has trouble adapting to her straightened circumstances. .

London: Leonard Parsons Ltd.. Good+. 1923. First English Edition. Hardcover. A tight solid book. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 251 pages; Blue cloth boards have sun-fading, corners bumped. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. This is a series of short stories, mostly reflecting mostly historical - ancient Greece, Roman, mediaeval Europe, et al. .

London: Ward, Lock & Company , Limited. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. circa 1920s. Hardcover. Boards show light shelf wear, some erasure top front free end paper, DJ has short tears, light chipping, soiling, DJ spine discolored. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Boards are stamped in black with decoration and titles front and spine. Undated.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 256 pages; Paul Trent is a pseudonym for Edward Platt .

London: Little, Brown & Company. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0316848077 . Only light edge wear to book and dust jacket. Previous owner has trimmed the top of the title page, probably to remove a name. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 9.30 X 6.20 X 1.20 inches; 309 pages; "Dick and Eunice have been married for 50 years. Eunice believes that they have achieved the point of real love but then Dick takes a terrifying plunge into insanity and enters a world of imaginary enemies, fantastic opportunities and sexual rivals." .

New York: Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679425659 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.0 X 6.5 X 1.6 inches; 449 pages; "The First World War has barely ended. Greek forces are reclaiming Anatolia from the Turks. And Stavros Topouzoglou—who twenty years earlier, escaping oppression of Turkish rule, fled to America only to discover the venality of his dream of an American life—disembarks to reclaim his homeland. Here he will recast his life and rid himself of his obsession with the elegant American woman who has become for him the ultimate symbol of success. He will marry an Anatolian girl who will treat him like and “agha.” He will have the life his father had. Stavros’s energy and arrogance propel him to an astonishing success in his war-torn country. Deep in the interior of Anatolia, he meets the woman who he thinks will complete this new… Read More

New York: New Amsterdam Books. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1561310050 . Signed by Author; 252 pages; DJ shows some edgewear creasing and scuffing. Dust jacket in Mylar. Inscribed by author on title page. Sanders's first novel is a tragicomic love story set in England during the socially fluid 1970s. Anya, a white South African, is an emotional and vindictive woman whose view of life is refracted through complicated feelings about her homeland (as a teenager, she fell in love with a black revolutionary). Now the owner of a trendy London dress shop, Anya finds her livelihood threatened by her messy, noisy new neighbor, a cantankerous sculptor named Laczi who fled his native Hungary in 1956. Anya's bullyish tactics result in colorful verbal sparring, which they both enjoy; Sanders's keen ear for language enlivens this intense courtship. In a swift, jolting succession of events, Laczi's work suddenly becomes fashionable,… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards show some shelf wear, small corner bumps, gift nitation on front free end paper. Stain on mid-spine area. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Color frontispiece and 3 color plates all present. ; Color Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 389 pages; This was turned into a film of the same name in 1920. A husband's jealousy dooms a marriage. Years later they meet again but she has changed so much, he doesn't recognize her. .

London: The Bodley Head. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1964. Omnibus. Hardcover. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, 1/4" section missing from back top of DJ. Glue and sticker damage on FFEP after previous removal of card pocket, library stamp inside front board. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Ex-Library; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 454 pages; Includes: John Barleycorn, The Cruise of the Dazzler and The Road .