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Benjamin grabbed his Glicken and ran: an autobiography

By: Gordon, Fred

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1971)

Seller ID: 11761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[solid copy, light soiling to covers and page edges, black remainder stripe on top edge; jacket shows light surface/edge wear, very minor chipping at spine ends, some creasing to both flaps]. "This first novel introduces a young writer whose imagination offers a unique literary and visceral experience," and purports to be the autobiography of one "Benjamin Hackett -- frightening, fascinating, dangerous, lovable, a twenty-three-year-old living on the edge of madness -- [who] tries to explore the most remote corners of his mind." His instrument is his notebooks, in which he ...
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Sheepshagger

By: Griffiths, Niall

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press: 2002

Seller ID: 11997

ISBN: 0-312-30073-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, one single page has short diagonal crease at top corner, NO remainder or other marks; jacket shows itsy-bitsy traces of edgewear here and there]. "This is the story of Ianto: the feral, inarticulate, inbred, ignoble savage; haunter of mountains, killer of innocents, Ianto is a sheepshagger -- a yokel, a Welsh redneck. But Ianto is also a seer, a visionary -- the genius loci -- who comprehends nature with a Blakean intensity, and is at one with the world he lives in: the moss and lichen, the lamb and the raven, the summit and the scree. Robbed of his ancestral hom...
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Something of Courage

By: Guglielmino, Terese S.F.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Courage Publishing, Inc.: 1987

Seller ID: 8196

ISBN: 0-9619205-0-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, just very slight wear to book and jacket]. A novel of the 1960's, apparently self-published, by a woman who (it sez here) "grew up in San Francisco in those incredible days chronicled in this novel [and] is one of those battered by the events of 60s and 70s ( which is to say that she is an American)." Although this very wordy book appears to be very much like a stream-of-consciousness journal, the author denies that it's autobiographical, claiming instead that the protagonist is "who she would like to have been."
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No Sanctuary

By: Harriott, Ted

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1983

Seller ID: 13003

ISBN: 0-436-19108-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [good solid copy, light shelfwear, faint dust-soiling to top edge, very light bumping to top corners; jacket moderately edgeworn, one tiny tear at top of rear panel]. Third novel by this journalist (who is also a poet, librettist, and author of children's books) whose first book, "Keep on Running," was the 1980 David Higham Award winner for best first novel. In this tale of the "Troubles," the protagonist, Michael Sullivan, becomes obsessed with the legend of the Black Irishman, "the wildest of the wild boys, the one the girls can't resist and the men hav...
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From an Inland Sea [SIGNED]

By: Harsent, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Viking: 1985

Seller ID: 12069

ISBN: 0-670-80395-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[one very light spot on top edge, otherwise just the faintest bit of shelfwear; jacket shows some uneven fading to front panel, spine sunned]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page (preceding the title page), and additionally SIGNED above his printed name on the title page itself. The novel, the first by this writer (better known as a poet), "charts the progress of an obsession. We first encounter the novel's protagonists during one of their frequent trips abroad, and at once they become strikingly present to the reader: he clever, heated, questioning; she cool, success...
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I Killed Hemingway [SIGNED]

By: Henderson, William McCranor

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1993

Seller ID: 6502

ISBN: 0-312-08816-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[tight, unread copy, bottom of spine slightly bumped; mild surface wear to jacket]. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only, no inscription). Signed by Author
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Stark Raving Elvis

By: Henderson, William McCranor

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: (c.1984)

Seller ID: 9837

ISBN: 0-525-24264-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

(price-clipped) [tight clean copy, very minor shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket has minor wrinkling at bottom of front panel, otherwise flawless except for price-clipping]. The author's first novel, about the Elvis impersonator to end all Elvis impersonators, and his rise to the pinnacle of a very strange world. "The conclusion is a veritable orgy of Elvis worship: the colossal Battle of the Elvises, where the cream of the world's would-be Elvises vie to become the New King of Rock 'n' Roll and where [the protagonist's] madness explodes like a bomb."
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Brother Holyfield [SIGNED]

By: Higginbotham, Jay

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas-Hull & Co.: 1972

Seller ID: 8960

ISBN: 0-913208-01-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, with some wear to cloth at top/bottom edges; jacket clean and bright, with just a couple of tiny edge-tears]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author (in 1999) on the ffep. Novel about a Southern Baptist preacher in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Signed by Author
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Meeting for Burial

By: Hitchman, Janet

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1968

Seller ID: 11723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[good solid copy, bottom corners lightly bumped; jacket a tiny bit dog-eared at top of spine]. Novel set against the background of a Quaker community, examining the life of Mildred Moore through the narrative device of remembrances at her funeral service. "What was the meaning of Mildred Moore's work in France during the First World War, in Russia during the famine of the twenties, in Depression-torn mining villages of Wales? Had she loved herself more than God's people? Was her goodness preferable to another's evil? Such questions bedevil the minds of those come to mourn. With love, ...
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Our Only May Amelia [SIGNED]

By: Holm, Jennifer L.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harpercollins: (c.1999)

Seller ID: 10594

ISBN: 0-06-027822-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, very light abrasion on top edge near spine; jacket has a tiny dampstain at top of spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The title character in this, the author's first novel (inspired by the diary of her Finnish-American grandaunt), "is the only girl ever born on the Nasel River -- A Real Miracle, her family says. And with seven brothers she believes it. Most of the time she forgets that she's a girl, like when she wears her overalls to go fishing with Wilbert or helps Uncle Aarno and the boys make the fishing nets." 2000 Newbery Hon...
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A Dream of Silence

By: Jewell, Bruce and Wanda

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: (c.1970)

Seller ID: 12737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, very light wear at extremities; jacket shows just a trace of wear at a few corners]. Novel about a "half-breed" boy, Jamie, who "lives in an average American suburb, loves his mother, idolizes his father, and is appealing and normal in every way. Except that he refuses to talk," except to an invisible companion, Mr. Bow, who is "not quite a mystic, but has qualities of a sachem or guru." The authors, per the jacket blurb, were personally acquainted with "a number of medicine men of various American Indian tribes [and had] lived with the Ch...
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Thanksgiving

By: Jordan, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1971

Seller ID: 4673

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[moderate shelfwear, top corners rather heavily bumped; jacket rubbed, some wear at corners/edges, both ends of spine chipped and heavily dog-eared]. Novel about a group of Sixties activists who decide, despite their commitment to peaceful change through the democratic process, to blow up a Long Island country club using homemade bombs. At first the bombing is planned for after the annual Thanksgiving Day celebration, when the club is empty. However, after a passionate exploration of their motives, their frustrations, and the morality of their actions, they decide that a symbolic act is not en...
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Six Months with an Older Woman

By: Kaufelt, David A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1973)

Seller ID: 11843

ISBN: 0-399-11154-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[tight and clean, just the faintest bit of smudging to top edge; jacket rubbed/scuffed, mild edgewear, a little soiling]. The author's first novel, "the story of a unique love affair. It begins in the publicity department of a large New York publishing house, where thirty-year-old Robert Fine and forty-five-year-old Isobel Ross meet. Robert has a string of ex-girlfriends all embodies in the carnivorous Rhoda; he also has a mother who makes Mrs. Portnoy look like a lamb and a psychiatrist whose specialty is meaningful silences."
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The Wars of Pardon

By: Kirsch, Robert

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1965)

Seller ID: 25823

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[nice solid clean copy, a little wear to cloth at spine ends; jacket shows a bit of surface wear, slight dog-earing at spine ends, one tiny closed tear at bottom of front panel]. First-person narrative of a gambler, whose "play has ranged from the battlefields of Italy and Israel to the casinos of Las Vegas and Havana, from the crap games of Coney Island and Harlem to the luxurious clubs of Southern California and Reno." The author was a longtime book critic and literary editor for the Los Angeles Times.
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Short Subject

By: Kirshenbaum, Binnie

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Orchard Books: (c.1989)

Seller ID: 25600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket has just a touch of wear at spine ends, one tiny tear at lower rear hinge]. The author's first novel, about 14-year-old Audrey Alice Feldman, who "spends every afternoon at the Variety Theatre in Brooklyn, a movie house featuring the old movies she loves but no one else in her family understands ... No one but Mr. Eisenstein, owner of the Variety, has a clue about the real Audrey Feldman,big-time dreamer and would-be member of the mob. In true Hollywood style, Audrey projects herself in, and out of, a crime story worthy of the gol...
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Stradivarius

By: Ladew, Donald P.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf: 1995

Seller ID: 8598

ISBN: 0-7867-0136-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, mild wear at base of spine but appears unread; jacket has some very minor wrinkling and one tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. "An inspirational story of young love and the transforming power of music -- a novel that will engage and delight everyone who believes that wonderful things can happen to good people. On the Korean peninsula during the freezing winter of 1951, a wounded American soldier finds a rare violin hidden in the wall of a farmhouse where he has taken refuge. This is the beautifully told story of how a centuries-old Stradivarius came to be in...
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The Horned Man

By: Lasdun, James

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 2002

Seller ID: 14294

ISBN: 0-393-00336-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj

[slight bump to top front corner, otherwise tight, clean, as new; jacket is flawless]. First novel by this much-honored poet and short-story writer. It "opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in the world. As Lawrence Miller, an English expatriate and a professor of gender studies, tells the story of what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy to frame him for a series of brutal killings, we descend into a world of subtly deceptive appearances where persecutor and victim continually shift roles, where paranoia as...
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Arkansas: Three Novellas [The Term Paper Artist; The Wooden Anniversary; Saturn Street] [SIGNED]

By: Leavitt, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1997

Seller ID: 11733

ISBN: 0-395-83704-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, no discernible wear, appears unread, tiny smudge at top of half-title page; rear panel of jacket shows some scuffing and surface-scratching, otherwise quite presentable]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Signed by Author
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While England Sleeps

By: Leavitt, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1993

Seller ID: 16090

ISBN: 0-670-83349-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, with no discernible wear; jacket shows only the faintest handling wear]. Leavitt's novel of a homosexual love affair, set against the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s, and in particular the Spanish Civil War. The author borrowed a bit too liberally from poet Stephen Spender's 1951 memoir "World Within World"; Spender filed a plagiarism suit in England, which ultimately led to the preparation of issuance of a revised version. It's often stated that the original version was "suppressed," which is a considerable exaggeration. In fact, Viking recall...
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Falling Up the Stairs

By: Lileks, James

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: (c.1988)

Seller ID: 8708

ISBN: 0-525-24655-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, very minor soiling to page edges, NO remainder mark; jacket rubbed/scuffed, some surface-scratching]. The Minneapolis-based columnist/humorist's elusive first novel, about the " society" editor of a small-town Minnesota newspaper, whose wish for a simple life goes wildly awry, first when he inherits his great-aunt's house -- "the Minneapolis version of Mad King Ludwig's castle," complete with ancient servants and a freeloading cousin -- and then when he gets involved as the unwilling "media mouthpiece" for AIL, the Alimentary Instruction League, "...
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Category: Fiction: Modern Literature