Search Results: Fiction from Lawrence Jones

New York: Times Books, 1993. xiii, 352pp, text-ills. Papered boards in dust-jacket. In this anthology , writers spanning many countries and more than a hundred years bring their creativity to bear on the narrative power inherent in chess. With selections from authors including Vasily Aksyonov, Woody Allen, Anne Bronte, Julian Barnes, Samuel Beckett and Kurt Vonnegut.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1900. xx, 395pp, bw ills. Or green pictorial cloth with Aboriginal warrior to front. Cloth with a few small red stains, flecked on rear and sunned to spine.Prev owner name on front free endpaper. Munchausen-esque tales of being castaway in north-western Australia and living with the Aborigines presented as being factual.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus. 8vo.

London: Faber & Faber, 1987. 165pp. Or card covers. Some toning and spotting to page edges.. First Trade Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1983. 244pp. Or card. One page corner turned, toning to page edges.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Collins, 1951. 448 pages. Lower page edges uncut. Prev owner's name on thje front flyleaf. Small book shop sticker by the lower edge of the front paste-down. Or green cloth boards, lower front board bumped, in price-clipped dust-jacket, lightly foxed and edge-worn. A novel set in the early 1950s.. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo.

Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, 1998. x, 370pp. Or beige papered boards with tan cloth spine in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket. Novel of espionage and the intelligence community based on a true event in the life of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009. 388pp. Paperback. A novel of a legendary battle.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback.

London: Macmillan, 2001. Translated from the Italian by Iain Halliday. 352pp, four double-page maps. Paperback. The first in the trilogy of Ancient Greece and Alexander's quest to conquer the civilized world.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Trade Paperback.

New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1992. 283pp. Spine creased. A Susan Henshaw Mystery. At first Susan Henshaw thought the body in the library was a Halloween trick..until she saw the blood and heard the man's dying gasp.. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1992. 110pp, notes. Slight edge wear to card covers. An underground and campus cult bestseller using vernacular language and viewpoints to liberate the younger characters from the duplicities and pretensions of inherited conventions be they American, British or Japanese. Deals somewhat with how Hawaii has become the place it is, torn betwen the traditions of the past and the enterprises of the future.. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Macdonald, 1973. 304 pages, b/w ills. Papered boards in dust-jacket (cover illustration by Hookway Cowles). Allan Quatermain and Brother John in the Transvaal.. New Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Hookway Cowles. 8vo.

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1993. 435pp. Or gray papered boards with purple cloth spine in pictorial jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Spine very slightly cocked (slight lean). Early novel in the Alex Cross series of thrillers by this ever more popular author.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. 178 pages. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

Reno, NV: Good Spiritual Company, 2006. 247pp. Slight edge wear to card covers, light stamp on title page. 'A wild fusion of DaVinci Code, Celestine Prophecy and Conversations with God'.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London: William Heinemann, 1966. 395pp. Or burgundy cloth in jacket. Jacket with very short (approx 1cm) tear at bottom of spine, not price clipped. A bright fresh example of the fifth book in the Angelique series co-authored by Serge and Anne Golon.. Third English Language Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 1955. 249pp. Or red cloth in jacket. Prev owners name on front free endpaper, light even toning to page edges. Jacket lightly rubbed at folds, several very short tears/tiny chips, approx 5mm missing from top and bottom of spine. NOT price clipped ($3), 10/55 date on bottom of front flap. First printing. A novel of intrigue and adventure by the author of Battle Cry. The author's second book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Currawong Publishing, 1944. 64pp. Or red, black and white card cover. Some minor rubbing and small stress creases at spine, some minor toning. Scarce wartime Australian short novel.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Picador, 1993. 345pp. Or card covers. Page edges evenly toned.. First UK Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. 384pp. Or cerise papered boards with purple cloth spine in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. First in the Second Demonwars Saga from this popular fantasy author.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Metatron Press, 2003. 382pp. Large paperback. Covers edgeworn, bottom page cornbers bumped/creased. SIGNED with non-personalised inscription inside front cover. A novel about spiritual awakening for three ordinary people who experience bizarre events.. Signed by Author. Revised Editio, Fourth Printing.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo.