FICTION / Literary from Barbara Bilson Books

Paris: Fayard, 1935. Cather's MY MORTAL ENEMY in a French translation by J. Balay and J. E. Burton. Listed in Jean Crane's "Willa Cather: a Bibliography" as Crane E42. Very good (worn covers, browned paper--typical of the inexpensive French paperbacks from this period--but solidly bound). A nice addition to a Cather collection. . Soft Cover.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1890. An unusual and scarce "large-paper" (6 1/4 x 9 inches) edition in three volumes, number 36 of 250 copies, of Eliot's 1863 novel. All three volumes are in very good condition with firm binding and beautiful cream covers and clear printing on good quality paper; all three have spotty discoloration of endpapers, offsetting to endpapers… Read more about this item

Highland Park, IL: StoryQuarterly, 1980. StoryQuarterly #11, from 1980. Very good in soft covers (lightly sunned white covers, especially on back cover). No dust jacket, of course. 152 pages with contributions from numerous writers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Meyer Levin, Jack Matthews, Alice Adams, John Gardner.. Soft Cover.

New York: Norton, 1996. First American edition of this early work by the Booker-Prize-winning author, previously published in 1970 in Britain. Fine in fine dust jacket. Unsworth won the Booker Prize for "Sacred Hunger.". 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Knopf, 2003. SIGNED and dated September 17, 2003, on title page by Kingston. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. An unusual book in that it starts with an account of the Oakland-Berkeley fire that destroyed not only her home but also the manuscript of her novel-in-progress. The rest of the book is not only an account of… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1931. Criterion Miscellany, No. 26. Yellow wraps with red lettering. 1st trade edition preceded by a limited edition specially printed on different paper. Our copy: the wraps are in poor condition (soiled, torn, detached from the text pages) but the text pages themselves are in fine condition and fully intact. 36 numbered pages. The… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 1987. Near fine (tanned pages--as is apparently typical of Viking England in this era; slight wrinkle at top of spine) in near fine dust jacket (corresponding wrinkle at top of spine; otherwise fine). A young woman from very modest means and used to the circumscribed London of 1953 spends a weekend at a wealthy estate with surprising results--like… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1984. Near fine (a few foxing spots on the endpapers, otherwise fine), in Near Fine dust jacket (crease on inside flap, some light edgewear along top). Fictional development of a mysterious episode in Chekhov's life where he travelled alone some 6500 miles across Russia to the prison colony on the island of Sakhalin. His… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1969. SIGNED by Lurie on title page. Near fine (two very small, barely noticeable small white smudges on covers; scratch on bottom page edges, probably from manufacturing process) in near fine dust jacket (slightly rubbed with very light edgewear at spine top and bottom and one corner). Her fourth novel. Adventures in a strange,… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1968. Bainbridge's second book, difficult to find in the British first edition. Very good++ (light spotting on top edges, light offset on first free endpaper) in very good+ dust jacket (lightly edgeworn and tanned). . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1994. SIGNED by author on title page. Author's second novel focuses on a brother and sister, now in their seventies, who stumble onto unsettling evidence of their earlier lives which they had managed to suppress. Near fine (light edgewear) in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped, light edgewear). . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Viking, 1950. Very good+ (1 slightly bumped corner, small bookstore sticker on rear pastedown) in very good- dust jacket (price-clipped, edgewear especially at top of spine with two 1/2 inch closed tears). In his preface, Steinbeck writes that this book is a "play-novellete"; the dialogue could be spoken on stage and the narrative treated as stage directions.. 1st… Read more about this item