Fiction from RJ's Books and Ephemera

Front hinge cracked. Pages complete and yellowed. Small number #20 on inside front cover in orange marker. Corners bumped, bent.

Book five of a six-book set Collier Version. Nobel Prize. Blue cloth reprint of first edition Light page tonings

Good hardcover with some shelf wear/fading on spine; Standard-sized.

Tight, clean, white pages, no dust jacket "Eudora Welty does go on. In this story, her character Edna Earle relays to a visitor the foibles of her eccentric Uncle Daniel Ponder, who loves nothing more than to give things away. He gave Edna Earle the hotel she runs, where she has presumably cornered her guest to hear… Read more about this item

Clean, tight, off-white pages, little bit of pen scribbling inside front cover. Historical novel, based on a little-known aspect of history: a tiny Pennsylvania community, known as Asylum, was established as a refuge for Marie Antoinette by a group of exiles from a France torn by Revolution.

Dented corners, pencil scribbling inside front cover, off-white pages. "Some writers go out with a fizzle, writing pap until they sputter out to die, and other writers go out with a bang, and damn it doesn't get more explosive than Sinclair Lewis' 'Kingsblood Royal".' Written with the help of Walter White, President of the NAACP as technical… Read more about this item

Nice copy of a novel published seventy years ago. Providentially preserved for 21st century readers.

Tight, clean copy. No dust jacket "In this novel of the Old South he [Yerby] creates some unforgettable characters, especially Guy Falks, the man all men want to be like, and all women want to love. Most interesting is Yerby's blunt exploration of race relations in very politically incorrect terms, and, in this book, a … Read more about this item

Worn ends of spine. Small blemishes on front cover and back. "There is something special about a good old-fashioned story. Spoonhandle is story telling at its finest. Not a thriller or a mystery, though there is some suspense about the way things will turn out. The characters were the most wonderful people, good and bad, warts… Read more about this item

Great condition for a 76 year old book. No dust jacket.

Very fine copy of this seminal work on the experience of fighting men in the Vietnam War. No dust jacket. "Highly critical of how the Americans were fighting this war, but unlike most of the gibberish propaganda acknowledging the horrors of Communism (and the third world, as well as some spicy criticism of American consumerism and… Read more about this item

A somewhat weathered copy of a 1950s classic. No dust jacket. Tight binding, off-white pages. This book is as wide as the world, confronting the eternal questions of virtue, truth, self-worth, love, envy and their opposites. The setting is early 19th century Kentucky as it faced the closing frontier, but in some sense the setting is… Read more about this item

Tight binding. Great shape for a book from the mid 1940s. I thought this one was going to have a fantasy element because of the haunting cover and inside flaps with the tree people, but it was pretty realistic. I did care for the characters and at times the prose was beautifully done. (Goodreads reviewer Kimberly Karalius

A well-written and entertaining account of those who built the Panama canal while also fighting against deadly yellow fever. Tight binding and complete off-white pages.

A National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1958). A tight square unmarked copy in fine condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition. Clean pages. Tight binding. Illustrations delightful. Great read for the lover of rhyming verse and early eastern frontier history.