Search Results: Fiction - American Authors from Goldring Books

London: Orion, 2005. First UK Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. On Parrish Island, a restricted strip of land off the coast of Virginia, there is a little known and never visited psychiatric facility, where far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state makes them a danger. One of these employees, former consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched, but he is not crazy and with the help of a sympathetic nurse, escapes to find out who and why he was put him there. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST D4A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Putnam & Co, 1944. Dark blue titles and decoration on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked apart from two very small spots and a touch of fading to top of spine tip but with no wear. Internally there is a neat contemporary inscription to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Good + copy. Dustjacket is not price clipped with chipping to spine head and tail and some small closed tears. First published in 1905 this is a romantic novel by the popular American author (1874-1911) of 'Lavender and Old Lace'. 1. Cloth. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1891. Gilt title and gilt publisher's monogram on blue cloth boards which are very clean and with just a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 265 pages and 55 page publisher's catalogue dated August 1891. The American author, Francis Marion Crawford's (1854 -1909) novel of a woman who falls in love with a man she works with in a cigarette making shop who tells her that he is a Russian Count fallen on hard times but he is not believed, however he is the Count Skariatine. A nice clean Victorian copy of the work. 1. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994. First UK edition. First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Set in the year 2005 where a paralysing depression threatens to collapse the US government and against this backdrop, a secret military cabal sets DEUS, a supercomputer with the potential for true intelligence, on a fateful course, perpetually reinventing itself and ultimately creating a powerful new viral weaponry. The potential for global disaster escalates as DEUS begins to create bizarre and deadly new life forms. Suddenly, mankinds fate rests with Riley, an unemployed computer expert and the only person skilled enough to stop the madness, but even as DEUS is propelled towards annihilation, it forges life sustaining bonds with Riley, the woman he loves and the abandoned boy whom DEUS comes to regard as something remarkable - a friend. D4C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1958. First UK edition. Silver title on light brown boards which are clean and unmarked apart from a crease to tail of spine. Internally a few pages have light smudge marks else clean and unmarked. Overall a Good + copy. One of the more scarcer novels by the American author (18971983) from Moberly, Missouri who wrote 86 novels mostly covering the lives of doctors and nurses and was popular in many countries. A1B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Bantam, 2002. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING June 2002. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small corner crease to one page) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Amanda Quick is the pseudonym of Jayne Ann Krentz and in this novel of mystery and romance, lovers and partners in crime investigators, Lavinia Lake and Tobias March, continue their new found relationship with a delicius mix of risky business, rising passion and murder. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1971. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has a strip of age darkening to endpapers (else near Fine) with a near Fine dustjacket which has the original dustjacket protector. Library binding although this copy was never in a public library. The book by Jeannette-Stratton Porter (1887-1977) was first published in 1929 and continues the story of 'Freckles', the novel written by her mother Gene Stratton-Porter in 1904. Lord Terence Maxwell O'More was being groomed as a gentleman among the Irish aristocracy but longed to be with his childhood sweetheart in far off Indiana where he was known as just 'Freckles'. Orphaned at an early age in America, Freckles suffered great hardship, but despite his disability of having only one hand, he found work and friendship at the lumber camp in the community of Limberlost, but it also led him to his lost heritage. C3C. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. A Fine uninscribed copy with complete dustjacket which has a repaired closed tear to top and a little wear. The American author (1862-1910) was a master of the short story with surprise endings who wrote about the lives of ordinary people in New York. He was born William Sydney Porter but used the pseudonym O. Henry for all his work. This collection comprises 61 short stories. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3A. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Granta, 2000. A Fine copy with near Fine dustjacket which isnot price clipped. First UK Edition First Printing hardback (previously published as paperback). The Korean born American author's novel of a Japanese American Doctor and his repressed memories of life in the Japanese army in World War II and the fate of a woman pressed into sexual service. D4A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1971. Silver title on black boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is just a touch of light foxing to top edge else unmarked. Dustjacket has wear to edges and a small closed tear and is not price clipped. First UK edition. A detective novel set in Illinois where a public relations executive has gone to search for one of his company's vice president's who has gone missing. Stock market frauds and intrigue. SCARCE B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: George G. Harrap, 1958. First UK edition. A Very Good + copy with facsimile of author's signature to front board and a W.H. Smith bookseller's label to front pastedown else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete and Very Good+. The American author's First Novel is the fight of the individual against society, it's two central characters are a Russian born naturalised American, Gregory Kirillin and Wanda Lee Smith, a member of a leading Southern family. Gregory was a newspaperman until idle gossip labelled him a communist and he lost his job, facing prejudice from everyone in town apart from Wanda. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hutchinson, 1959. Yellow title on black boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Coloured pictorial dustjacket by Biro is complete but has wear to edges and chipping to top and bottom G+. Second impression June 1959 (first was also June 1959). A novel set against an international background of America, France and Tangier presenting a colourful tapestry of stories woven together of a plastic surgeon who goes to Paris to rebuild his life, a woman of the haute couture, the leader of the Algerian underground and the head of a banking family. The book by the American novelist and doctor was on The New York Times best-seller list for 37 weeks. B2B. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small mark to lower closed edge) with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. A playfully picaresque, erotic, magical novel of love and power, where Jan, a successful middle-aged businessman, finds himself in a Paris art gallery one afternoon, falling hopelessly in love with a lady lion tamer as she gazes out at him from a circus poster. He sets out to find her and the search takes him through most of Europe, plunging him into the dark reaches of his wartime adolescence and culminating in an extraordinary self-education in love, domination, and the human condition. 23. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996. First UK Edition, First Printing. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to closed edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The American artist and author's second novel which is a taut, suspenseful detective story of a kidnapping set in San Francisco. 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. Brown titles on light brown cloth boards, spine slightly dulled else very clean. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Re-issued in the 'Florin Books' of uniform volume series. The third novel by the first American author (1885-1951) to win the Nobel Prize for literature. An early work by the author, it is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. Focusing on the main character, Una Golden, her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920's and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate and, while valued by her company, she struggles to achieve the same status of her male co-workers. 11. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" -… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1909. Gilt title with ornate gilt front board of birds and foliage on blue cloth boards which are clean with some wear to head of spine and fading to spine. Internally there is a contemporary name and date to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. All edges gilt. 48 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. xxxii + 286 pages. The American author (1849-1925) was a novelist and short story writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. C3B. Hard Cover. Good AEG/No Jacket. Illus. by Thomson, Hugh. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Denver, Colorado: Intrigue Press, 2004. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The American author's FIRST NOVEL which is a psycho-thriller novel of murder and mystery, featuring Noelle Werlin, the beautiful wife of a rock and roll legend, who was never able to shake off the ghosts of her past, but dying at the hands of one of those ghosts never crossed her mind. In Woods Hole on Cape Cod, she had grown up as the daughter of Neptune de Oliveira's daughter Celestina, otherwise known as Tina the Tease, changing her name and running away to New York as a teenager, she thought she could escape her life of unspeakable sexual depravity. D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. TRUE FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. INCLUDED ALSO is a Fine Dustjacket for the English Edition. The American Pulitzer Prize winning author has always been at home with the short story and this new collection of twelve stories puts his rich and varied talents on dazzling display, demonstrating why this singular writer is acclaimed as one of the most subtle, magical, and penetrating explorers of the American imagination. 2. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Bantam, 2003. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING May 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A thrilling venture into romance and mystery by the American author, whose real name is Jayne Ann Krentz, where an invitation to a country house party at Beaumont Castle provides a perfect solution to Tobias and Lavinia's most exasperating challenge, how to escape the chaos of London for a remote, relaxing and romantic retreat. Their plans are foiled when the weekend is interrupted by the appearance of a woman from Tobias's past, Aspasia Gray, hauntingly beautiful, her long deceased fiance, was a friend of Tobias as well as being an eccentric assassin. The mysterious bond between Tobias and Aspasia makes Lavinia uncomfortable, especially when she finds her in Tobias's bedchamber and events take a turn for the worse when someone appears to be imitating the dead fiance's killing methods. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo -… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1959. Gold title on red boards, very clean and unmarked. Internally a little foxing to front endpaper and fore edge with W. H. Smith private library bookplate to front pastedown, else very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is VG+ and is in the original protector. A novel by the foremost Greek poetry translator and American Professor at Princeton. This is his first novel which won the Rome Prize for literature. It tells of a business man, the son of an American missionary, who returns to the Greek village where he grew up to claim his inheritance; and discovers what his inheritance is - in the course of a few nightmare days that overturn his life - precisely what his inheritance is. Piece by piece the past takes shape and the true relationship of the characters he has known since boyhood is revealed. 206. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.