Search Results: Fiction from Veery Books

Paris: Editions Stock, 1945. 169 pp. Paper aging, opens flat. Could be gently read. "Traduit de l'allemand par Alzir Hella et Olivier Bournac, préface de Romain Rolland." "Soudain, je me jetai sur la table, je sortis us paquet de papier a lettres et me mis a lui ecrire . . . a lui ecrire une lettre plaintive comme les lamentations d'un chien, dans lequelle j'implorais de me pardonner, lui disais etre un fou, un criminel . . .dans laquelle je la conjurais d'avoir confiance en moi. . . . Je lui faisais le serment de disparaitre aussitot apres de la ville, de la colonie, si elle le voulait, du monde. . . . Il fallait qu'elle m'accordat son pardon et son confiance, se laissat assister, maintenant qu'il etait temps, grand temps. . . J'ecrivis ainsi vingt pages fievreuses. Ce devant un lettre folle, incroyable, delirante...". Wraps. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. 638 pp. Used but still handsome. 'Had it not been for the absurdity of life and its unhappiness, this book would never have been written. . . . We don't shed books the way we shed hair or skin or strange ideas. . . . I must mention . . . first and foremost Gaetano Salvemini, one of the greatest men my country gave the world in the last century, a man hated by everyone who had something to hide, and then loved by these same people the moment they learned from him that lies are limited and the truth endless.' Tucci's first book in English. . First Edition, Second Printing. Quarter Cloth Decorative Paper. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

296 pp. Octavo, 6.5 x 9.5 in. First edition, first printing, a fine volume with no flaws, black textured paper-covered boards with metallic blue stamping and a Little Brown blind stamp. In a fine dust jacket, black, with iridescent blue ruling, in an archival cover, signed "To Tom" by Mosley on the title page below his name.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. 384 pp. Spine and lettering darkened. Volume two only. Elegant black and silver papered boards rubbed. Paper begining to break up on foreedge of boards. Binding is sound and pages are clean. Printed on Aventuros paper. The blue and white patterned endpapers are intact and front pastedown is graced with the excellent bookplate of author, lawyer, and civil libertarian Osmond Kessler Fraenkel [1888-1983]. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Cities of the Plain is a translation of 'Sodome et Gomorrhe I' from the fourth part and and a portion of 'Sodome et Gomorrhe II' from the fifth part of Marcel Proust's continuous novel ' A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' (Remembrance of Things Past). 'This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head. A tomato exactly similar served as head to his twin brother. To the detached observer there is this attraction about these perfect… Read More

167 pp. First Edition Trade Paperback. Table of Contents: "Steps," The Red Suitcase," "Reckonings," "How Was Your Afternoon, Dear?" "The Violinist," "Showtime," and Rash: A Novella. Cover art is by the author. Front cover: "Flattened Man," back cover "Cosmic Dust," Both 2018. Excerpt from "Showtime": A man in a black wool overcoat stood at an ATM in the lobby of a bank on Broadway. A black and white Shetland collie sat at his right foot. It was after 1 a.m. The man withdrew $100, put the money in a trifold wallet, and returned the wallet to the inside breast pocket of his tuxedo. The man snapped his thumb and middle finger. The dog, ever alert to his master's movements, walked out of the bank lobby, his head even with the man's right knee. Man and dog walked two blocks down Broadway to a produce market. "No dog in store." The Man Ignored the clerk. "Every night the same. Next time, no dog in store." The man turned and left the store, the dog heeled next to his right knee. The man and dog continued… Read More

New York: Dial Press, 1960. General wear to wraps, light price sticker shadow. Contents: R. V. Cassill, Frost and Sun; Tom McAfee, This Is My Living Room; Buddhadeva Bose, One or Two Roses; Herbert Gold, The Discovery of Flesh in the Ideal Form, Bernard Wolfe, Miss Shoshana. "Sometimes, even among these public satisfactions of a distinguished new critic of poetry and sanitary habits, I paused to think of Lucille Lake, whom I adored for her busy diamond-eyed beauty. / Sometimes, I longed for a honey graham cracker with marmalade and a glass of milk."-- from Herbert Gold, Flesh in the Ideal Form.. Wraps. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: McSweeney's, 2001. 33 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. 'My wife the doctor, is not well. In the end she could be dead. It started suddenly, on a country weekend, a movie with friends, a pizza, and then pain.' Author of Jack; . Illustrated Wraps. Fine. Illus. by Melinda Beck. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: St Martins Pr, 1999. First Printing, March 1999. 'When I finished, we kicked back in with the head, Senor Ramirez and I doing our sixteenth-note duet with a precision and somehow instinctive knowledge of the significance of each other, our harmonies not the sound of two trumpets playing but instead of one musical unit, and not even that: of one musician playing one song and that song a song we'd created instead of played.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: McSweeney's, 2001. 74 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. 'So at first, I thought I'd call Maxine as soon as I got home and tell her about this guy who took me bowling on our blind date, even though there was really no comparison. I mean, Joel wasn't a CPA, and I wasn't stuck out in the sticks, I could always leave if I needed to.'. Illustrated Wraps. Fine. Illus. by Katherine Streeter. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1920. 252 pp. A bit of rubbing to the edges. Spine darkened. All six plates by Eric Pape are present. Also an elaborate jousting scene by Pape on endpapers. Green cloth with gilt-decorated type and ornaments. 'Long, long ago when castles grim did frown, When massy wall and gate did 'fend each town; When mighty lords in armour bright were seen, And stelthy outlaws lurked amid the green And oft were hanged for poaching of the deer, Or, gasping, died upon a hunting spear;' The Gest proceeds in 'Fyttes.' . First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Eric Pape. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

172 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.25 in. First British edition. A fine DJ, now in an archival cover and a fine volume, perfect, but for a small black mark in the bright orange cloth near the gutter of the spine. Contents: The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Cortès and Montezuma, The King of Jazz, The Question Party, Belief, Tales of the Swedish Army, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Death of Edward Lear, Concerning the Bodyguard, The Zombies, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days. "Man, you from out of town or something? What do you mean you refuse to play 'Smoke'? How'd you get on this gig anyhow? Who hired you?"

New York: McSweeney's, 2001. 32 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. 'Everyone thought he was a vice cop when he started coming around, just cruising the block slowly in that big old silver Pontiac. He'd be leaning out his window, his eyes looping around us like he was circling horses on a betting sheet.' 'J. T. Leroy is the author of Sarah, a novel, and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, a novel of linked stories. Her writes for a number of magazines.'. Illustrated Wraps. Fine. Illus. by Sharon Leong. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

291 pp. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.) Light wear to wraps with a crease to top fore-edge corner of wraps. Signed by Walter Mosley at his story "Open House." With a letter from the publisher laid in. Foreword: Lift-off, laurel wreaths, and the power of "yes" by Allan Gurganus, With stories by Sue Miller, Ethan Canin, Ann Patchett, Brad Owens, Harriet Doerr, Mark Dewey, Emily Hammond, A.M. Homes, Jonathan Ames, Suzanne Juergensen, Lauren Belfer, David Lipshy, Daniel Mueller, Michael Drinkard, Chris Spain, Steven Barthelme, Mona Simpson, Jennifer Coke, M.T. Sharif, Pinckney Benedict, Fenton Johnson, and Molly Giles.

New York: Blue Hen Books, 2002. 469 pp. Bibliography. A 1/2 inch remainder mark on bottom of pages. Not price-clipped. Two black marks on DJ. Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist, and activist living in Burlington, Vermont. This is his first novel. Gregor Samsa's adventures in America after he is swept into the dustbin. For those who have forgotten, 'Gregor Samsa awoke one morning after disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous cockroach.' Gregor runs into interesting folks: Musil, Wittgenstein, Spengler, Einstein, Rilke, Charles Ives, FDR and ends up in . . . well, you've got to read it.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Book Design By Marysarah Quinn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Normal, Illiinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. 158 pp. Wear to edges, a black mark on back wrap. ''Let's suppose that the memory is like a jade cabinet, but a cabinet belonging to an infinitely resolute collector. Each time we look inside, the jade appears to be the same, yet the mind is forever replacing one chimera for another that resembles it. Let's suppose that the memory is a cabinet of chameleons and the mind as unstable as the moon.'' 'The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues will plot a bloody revenge.'--from the jacket. ''Our father, Angus Sperry, once described how certain butterflies risk their lives sailing the infinite airs above the seas to flock together at the resonant place (as he called it): an obscure tree, a ragged expanse of beach, a certain… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. 224 pp. Blue Cloth with silver embossing is fine, some foxing to endpapers, and top of pages a bit dull. DJ missing two pieces with spine darkening. Dust jacket art and decorations by Edward Shenton. 'Although Jumper was harnessed almost daily that winter, the chores assigned to him were so light that he considered them as recreation rather than labor. The loads of hay, straw, and wood that he was required to pull were no burden at all. In this and other ways he was shown special favors. Even the stable hands regarded him as one set apart from his companions by certain qualities commanding their affectionate respect. They gave him the simplest tasks, and saved for him the chiocest foods. / After the adventure with the wolves his fame spread. Complete strangers asked to have him pointed out to them, and vied with each other in congratulating the master on possessing such a remarkable horse. The story of his exploit passed from mouth to mouth among the… Read More

Club Des Libraires De France, 1954. 279 pp. Spine a bit faded, bottom corners rubbed. Sticker ghost on FEP. Stamped black cloth. Edition limited to 3,500. This is number 3075. 'Recit, traduit de l'Allemand par Pierre Bertaux Suivi de trois nouvelles inedites traduites par Marie-Louise Ponty. Contents: One short novel, Jusqu'à l'Aube and three novellas: Vendredi Saint 1945; Rencontre en Hongrie; Soleil Arrête-toi.. Limited/Numbered. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

248 pp. Quarter cloth, illus. paper-covered boards. Little wear to exterior, pages starting to tan near edges, but still quite flexible. PO inscription in Lithuanian on the FFEP. On the Road—in Lithuanian. Worldcat finds a copy in France and one in Germany. A short essay in Lithuanian on Kerouac and his novel. A Paaiškinimai [appendix, literally, explanations, but most like a glossary]. Greihaundas, Houboukenas, Belvju, Bronksas et cetera. Along with On the Road, Signet, 25th anniversary edition, 30th printing, or so, included as a guide on the road.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 240 pp. Faint sticker ghost on ffep. 'Mr. Bullock siad he wanted for us to write about something we knew, something we knew so well that we didn't see it anymore. And so I wrote about the lacy, summertime shadows of the squat oak that Grandpa DiMartino had planted in the backyard to celebrate his escape from the Bronx . . . .'. First Edition,. Paper-covered Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2005. 367 pp. A half-inch tear and another small half-inch piece missing in dj, associated rubbing on one corner of book, approx. 3/8 inch, visible in photo. Otherwise fine. 'He inserted the letter into the beggar's brass pencil cup. The last enveliope in the deck was made of sawtooth-edged crepe paper, a pleasing shade of violet. The person who had sent the letter apparently answered to a romance novel cognomen. Aboe the return address she had written the name Desdemona Dauphin. Sylvia had released her silly roman a clef The Bell Jar under an arch pseudonym as well. Victoria something. Desdemona Dauphin lived in nearby Saint James. He couldn't help but be curious. He stopped in a little auberge. Ted was out of breath and wanted to rest or possibly sleep for a few hours. His room had a small bed, a table and a chair, and a full-length mirror that he attempted to take down from the wall while avoiding looking into the glass. The mirror was… Read More