Search Results: Fiction from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2000). First U.K. edition, this copy boldly signed in ink by Ondaatje in his characteristic minimalist style on the title page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), 311 & [2] pages. Publisher's black cloth- patterned paper over boards lettered in bronze on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Ribbon marker sewn in.
Slight foxing mostly at the edges of the text block but occasionally evident internally, text a bit toned otherwise very good or better in fine dust jacket.
Ondaajte's fourth novel.
"From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Sri Lanka was in a crisis that involved three essential groups: the government, the antigovernment insurgents in the south and the separatist guerrillas in the north. Both the insurgents and the separatists had declared war on the government. Eventually, in response, legal and illegal government squads were known to have been sent out to hunt down the separatists and the insurgents.Anil's Ghost is a fictional work set during this political time and… Read More

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 5 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
"Joyce had neither been a virgin or a fool when she married. She had taken George for better or worse and so far she quietly admitted to herself it had been much worse ..."
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

[Spurious imprint]. Paris: [Olympia Press], Traveller's Companion Series number 19, no date (ca. 1960's ?). Two sextodecimo volumes (6.75" x 4.25"), 171 pages (continuously paginated). Publisher's printed light card covers.
Trace edge wear, minor internal toning, otherwise very good or better.
An erotic adventure which began with rape. The protagonist searches the jazz clubs & beat bars of New York in search of her violator from whom she wants revenge & more sex.
Author Owens wrote five erotic novels for Olympia, this a pirated edition quite probably actually published in London.

New York: Ballantine, "A One World Book," (2000). First edition, this copy boldy signed in ink at the title page by Kristen Lattany (nee Kristin Hunter). Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), 265 pages. Publisher's orange paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered brick paper, in pictorial dust jacket.
Top edge of the text block lightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
"The ever-widening gap between Africans and African-Americans - and the strong but precarious link that bridges it ... The unexpected peril of romanticizing our roots - and the foreigners who represent them...The importance of taking care of others - without sacrificing oneself...Kristin Lattany takes political correctness and Afrocentricity and turns them upside down." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Jericho, New York: Exposition Press, (1974). First edition. 8vo, 79 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Slightly rubbed, endpapers & pastedowns browned from binder's glue, brief gift inscription from the author's wife at ffep, otherwise Very Good in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, lightly toned, with brief edge wear including a couple of short tears. "A rollicking yarn about growing up in New York City at the turn of the century" which includes girls, summers in Maine, & World War I."

New York: A.A. Wyn, 1948. First American edition but printed in Great Britain with price in pounds sterling. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5.25"), xi & 159 pages, the title page printed in red & black. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in brown on the spine, in pictorial dus jacket.
Slight shelf wear, otherwise near fine in soiled dust jacket, browned at the spine, with edge wear including nicks & small losses, a good or better example.
The original Chinese edition, "Hsing Shih Heng Yen" [Common Tales to Rouse the World], was published in 1627. The tales include Love in a Junk; Brother or Bride?; The Everlasting Couple; & The Mandarin-Duck Girdle.

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 3 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled & sunned, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
"Clara Bridges was a hunter - a hunter of men. A beautiful woman in the full bloom of her early twenties, full of youth, her instincts alive and urgent; she was the personification of feminine temptation. Above all else, Clare craved the intimacies of sex ..."
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

New York: Bernard Geis Associates, distributed by Random House, (1959). First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), xiii & 204 pages. Publisher's decorated dark gray paper over boards backed in white & gilt lettered green cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Trace of wear at spine extremities, slight foxing affecting early & late leaves, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket, lightly soiled, with brief edge wear including a short closed tear.
"Following are a bunch of true experiences that I wrote at various times of my life. All the experiences are about girls, because that is what my life is about - girls. I'm not oversexed, mind you. But I'm not undersexed either. Let's just say I'm sexed ..." ~"Dobie Gillis," excerpted from the Foreword

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1945). Early printing. Octavo (8.25 x 5.25"), 209 pages. Publisher's gray cloth lettered & ruled in maroon in pictorial dust jacket.
Moderate foxing/ offsetting at pastedowns, first & last blank pages & edges of the text block, otherwise very good in very good corner-clipped dust jacket, a bit faded at the spine, lightly rubbed & soiled, with modest edge wear.
"This is the story of two brothers who come up from a minor league baseball team to join the Dodgers. They play the important keystone combination - second base and shortstop - and their success depends not only on their individual skill but on the complete coordination with which they work together ..." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket

Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, Volume xlvii, number 3, March, 1930. First edition. Publisher's stapled, pictorial paper wraps, folio (14.25" x 11"), 258 pages.
Moderate edge wear (particularly the lower corner, diminishing through page 25), some foxing & toning mostly affecting the covers, small mailing label on the rear cover, otherwise Good or better.
This voluminous issue features "White Birch," a stunning full page color illustration by Maxfield Parrish, & a contribution by Albert Payson Terhune entitled "The Scourge" which is illustrated by Robert L. Dickey. Terhune, of course, was the creator of the beloved Lad a Dog series,

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, (1978). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink at the title page by Kristen Hunter Lattany. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), [6] & 314 pages. Publisher's red cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Edges of the text block lightly foxed, otherwise fine in slightly toned dust jacket, still about fine.
Kristin Hunter (1931 - 2008), an African American author, comments on her writing:
"The bulk of my work has dealt, imaginatively, I hope, with relations between the white and black races in America. My early work was "objective," that is, sympathetic to both whites and blacks, and seeing members of both groups from a perspective of irony and humor against the wider backdrop of human experience as a whole. Since about 1968 my subjective anger has been emerging, along with my grasp of the real situation in this society, though my sense of humor and my basic optimism keep cropping up like uncontrollable weeds."

[Spurious imprint]. Paris: [Olympia Press], Traveller's Companion Series number 3, no date (ca. 1960's ?). Two sextodecimo volumes (6.75" x 4.25"), 218 pages (continuously paginated). Publisher's printed, light card covers.
Modest edge wear including a tiny loss & some scuffing at the front cover of part 1, internal toning, otherwise very good.
A pirated edition quite probably actually issued in London, originally published in 1954;
Espionage, intrigue, royalty, multiple partners, this the only erotica fiction from the pen of an accomplished poet who apparently needed the money.

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 3 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
Young Betty Jean Cracker is routinely disciplined by women but, none-the-less, enjoys frequent dalliances with men.
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

[Spurious imprint]. Paris: Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion Series number 28, (1956) but later, ca. 1960's. Two sextodecimo volumes (6.75" x 4.25"), 208 pages (continuously paginated). Publisher's printed light card covers, part one in pale green, part two in light blue. This version not found in OCLC as of 2/22/2024.
Margins lightly sunned, trace edge wear, minor internal toning, otherwise very good or better.
A pirated edition quite probably actually published in London. Crudely printed but replete with the tale of the difficulties ensued when one finds a gorgeous woman burned to death in one's bed. The solution, of course, is to seek out "Mr. Big" but first one must pass through a number of beautiful girls skilled in the art of love.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First edition, this copy signed in ink by Shulman at the ffep. Octavo (7.75" x 5.5"), 191 pages, with illustrations by Bill Crawford. Publisher's gray cloth lettered & decorated in plum on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Spine a bit cocked, offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, text modestly toned, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket, moderately soiled, lightly browned at the spine, with brief edge wear including a couple of nicks, short closed tears, & a very shallow loss at the top of the spine.
Author Shulman is best known for his girl crazy character Dobie Gillis. Sleep till Noon, on the other hand, is "A roaring burlesque of middle-class morality."

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran, 1932. First American edition. 8vo, viii, [2], [1] - 166 pp., frontis in color & 12 b & w plates. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in black, in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight wear at spine extremities & corners, brief rubbing, small booksellers' rubber-stamped mark at front pastedown, occasional finger smudges, otherwise Very Good in lightly soiled dust jacket with edge wear (including short tears & small losses at spine ends & fold extremities), with pink lettering at spine quite faded, certainly Good or better. A charming story of the good Captain & wonderful dog Bodger who, among other adventures, capture a family of lions using fly paper & eau-de-cologne

Detroit, Michigan: Harlo Press, (1974). First edition, this copy signed in ink by the author at the ffep. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), 253 pages, with frontis & 1 plate. Original gilt-lettered gray cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Modest foxing/ offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, ISBN supplied in ink on the copyright page, otherwise very good in very good moderately soiled & foxed dust jacket.
"A true and poignant story of two lovers caught in a web of tragedy and the tragic, heroic part they and their patriotic, God-loving people (many of them our ancesters) played in the history of the Old South." ~From the dust Jacket.

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1966). First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"), 223 pages. Publisher's gilt lettered gray/ blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Margins lightly sunned, otherwise fine in very good dust jacket with moderate edge wear including shallow losses at the spine extremities, minor creasing, & a couple of short, closed tears.
The last of Bowles's four novels which he characterized in 1968 as his best "because it's the best written. After all, what one writes for is to write well, to use the language well, to make the words tell the most they can, in the smallest number ..."

New York: The Viking Press, (1983). First edition, this copy signed in ink by Westlake at the ffep. Octavo (9" x 6"), [11] & 2 - 191 pages. Publisher's black paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered white cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight sunning at the upper margin, otherwise fine in near fine dust with a 1/4 inch tear at the top edge of the rear panel.
The fifth title in Westlakes's John Dortmunder series. Westlake, a three-time Edgar Award winner, was named a Grand Master in 1993 by the Mystery Writers of America, the society's highest honor.

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 6 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
"Again I sought Dorothy's society, who helped further to destroy any lingering prejudices I still had, about the ways in which the sexes may use their genitals, either in giving pleasure to each other, or men with men, or women ..."
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint