Search Results: General Fiction from Furrowed Brow Books

Robert Grant & Son, Ltd, 1947. Darling, Will. Y. : The Bankrupt Bookseller. Edinburgh : Robert Grant & Son, Ltd., 1947. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.25"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's burnt orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top-edge stained red. Matte color pictorial dust jacket. Plain white endpapers. [1-4], 5-351, [352] blank. Preface to the first combined edition, by Harold Forrester; Book 1 (The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller), Book 2 (The Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again). Condition notes: An excellent copy: nice color retention to boards and dust jacket; binding slight cocked, spine ends rolled; price-clipped jacket shows light wear with several small closed tears and chips. Interior tanned but unmarked. Among the chapter titles: The Bookseller's Cat; An American Lady; When I am Dead; Books no Decent Bookseller would Keep; Regret; and so on. Delightful. Originally published in the 1930s as two separate novellas. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Losada/Argentina, 2004. paperback. Timossi, Jorge : El 11-s Y La Gorda. Buenos Aires : Losada, 2004. Size is octavo (8vo), 9"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers. 182 numbered pp, [183] colophon, [184] blank. Condition notes: Ex library with typical stickers and stamps. Else unmarked with light wear to wrappers. We personally inspect every book we offer.

New Amsterdam Books, 1991. paperback. Kadare, Ismail : The General of the Dead Army. Chicago : New Amsterdam Books, 1991. Possible later printing. Translated from the French by Derek Coltman (not directly from Albanian to English as some other editions). Size is octavo (8vo), 8.5"/22cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers, cover art Edward Lear. [1-8], 9-251, [252]. Condition notes: an excellent, unmarked copy with light wear/no spine crease to wrappers, modest curling to covers; interior unmarked. Kadare's 1963 debut novel, and his most famous: Italians scour Albania for the earthly remains of Mussolini's soldiers 20 years after the war's end. We personally inspect every book we offer.

E.P Dutton & Co, 1944. First Edition. Stuart, Jesse : Mongrel Mettle: The Autobiography of a Dog. New York : Books, Inc/E. P. Dutton & Co, 1944. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.25"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's light gray/green cloth over boards, red lettering to spine and front board. Deckle fore-edge. Plain white endpapers. [i-ii], [1-10], 11-201, [202-206] blank; w eight b&w illustrations by Woodi Ishmael. Condition notes: lacks dust jacket. Corners bumped, spine ends rolled, moderate sun-fading to boards. Interior tanned but unmarked. We personally inspect every book we offer.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018. First Edition. hardcover. Owens, Delia : Where the Crawdads Sing. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.25"/23.3 cm h. Quarterbound in publisher's red paper boards, blue paper spine; bright copper lettering to spine. Glossy color photographic dj. Plain pale blue endpapers. [i-x], [1-5], 6-370, [371-374] blank. Condition notes: This is a notably worn ex-library copy with the typical array of stamps and stickers indicating such. First printing with full number line and an unclipped early issue dustjacket without NYT blurb. Spine moderately cocked, corners bumped and worn through to boards, spine ends rolled and frayed; tail edges worn from shelf contact. Dust jacket sheathed in library mylar, tape attaching jacket to boards; tape coating has stained tail edge of ffep, with slight bleed through to following (half-title) page. Hinge beginning at half-title page. Textblock edges and pages generally tanned but unmarked.… Read More