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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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Forgiving [SIGNED]

By: List, Shelley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: (c.1982)

Seller ID: 9854

ISBN: 0-525-24132-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[nice copy, bottom corners bumped, light shelfwear, small smudge on bottom page edges; jacket a bit rubbed, minor wear at edges and corners]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep, with a long personal inscription to actress Marie Windsor (whose address label appears on the front pastedown), "with hopes that the message here - that we must forgive and come to terms with our demons - has meaning for you." The novel deals with a high-powered female photojournalist whose professional life consumes her: "Work is her reality, the rest of life something left aside, to be handled after the d...
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The Mothers

By: Loomis, Edward

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1962

Seller ID: 13403

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good solid copy, light shelfwear, bottom corners a bit bumped; jacket shows light soiling and minor surface wear, remnants of old price sticker at top of front flap]. "Dean Candell's educational opportunities, in matters of the heart, were unusual in the extreme. His two principal instructors, Ethel and Verna, pursued their task, sometimes willingly and sometimes not, under remarkably varied and changing circumstances. Beginning as high-school girls and continuing as wives and mothers, they managed between them to create the episodes of tragedy and comedy -- or so it seemed to Dean -- th...
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Dog Day Afternoon

By: Mann, Patrick (pseud. for Leslie Waller)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: (c.1974)

Seller ID: 12852

ISBN: 0-440-04399-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good solid copy, minor wear to bottom edge, faint soiling to page edges; jacket shows minor edgewear, spine sunned, light soiling, one tiny tear at bottom rear hinge]. Not really the "source novel" for the movie of the same name, but a sort of novelization (which actually appeared a year before the movie) -- perhaps, more accurately, a kind of alternate telling, "based in part on material created by Frank R. Pierson" (the film's screenwriter, who in turned based his work on an article about an actual bank robbery-cum-media event.
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Born Too Soon

By: Marion, Robert, M.D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co. , Inc.: 1985

Seller ID: 10026

ISBN: 0-385-19833-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, remainder spray on bottom edge but otherwise no significant wear; ditto the jacket, except for a few tiny and very unobtrusive edge-tears to the rear panel (if you can see 'em, you're looking too hard!)]. Novel (the author's first) about "an eager and idealistic young intern, about to bring his new skills and dreams of healing to Boston's famous St. Anne's Hospital, and to the most vulnerable of all patients: newborn babies -- some very sick, some dying, some not weighing more than a pound." The author himself was (surprise!) a pediatrician.
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The Last Supper

By: McCarry, Charles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton, Inc.: (c.1983)

Seller ID: 14266

ISBN: 0-525-24173-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[very light wear to book, slight browning to page edges; front of jacket shows minor creasing, rear panel has some surface scratching and a small scrunch at the bottom edge, jacket still very presentable]. One of this excellent author's most ambitious works, in which, "through the life of his central character, Paul Christopher, he traces the labyrinthine history of the secret American intelligence group known as the Outfit from its early buccaneering days in the war against the Nazis and the Japanese, through the shadowy years of the Cold War, and on to the bitterness and moral complexiti...
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Shelley's Heart

By: McCarry, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1995)

Seller ID: 12420

ISBN: 0-679-41533-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

(price-clipped) [very nice clean copy, no discernible wear, appears unread; aside from the price-clipping, jacket shows only light surface wear, mostly to rear panel]. "The first presidential election of the twenty-first century, bitterly contested by two men who are implacable political rivals but lifelong personal friends, is stolen. On the eve of the inauguration the losing candidate presents proof of the crime to his opponent, the incumbent President, and demands that he stand aside. The winner refuses and takes the oath of office, thereby setting in motion what may destroy him and ...
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Lucky Bastard

By: McCarry, Charles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1998)

Seller ID: 24795

ISBN: 067944761X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, virtually as-new with no discernibile wear to book; jacket shows just a touch of surface rubbing on the rear panel (NOTE that the jacket, by design, is about 1-1/2" shorter than the book itself)]. "The suspenseful and hilarious story of a gifted politician with dangerous friends and a zipper problem," who also "has good reason to believe he is the illegitimate son of JFK. His goal is the same as that of any Kennedy: to reclaim the presidency....and enjoy as many women as possible along the way." This highly-regarded author is an ex-CIA agent who has achi...
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Cooling Off

By: McCool, J.M.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: (c.1984)

Seller ID: 4313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[very slight dust-soiling on top edge; jacket shows a bit of wear along top/bottom edges, one tiny nick at top of rear panel]. The author's first novel, a Mississippi-set tale about "a young woman [who] is frozen for five days in a compartment cooled to ten degrees below zero," as a promotional stunt for a car dealership. "A macabre, funny, and page-turning tale in the finest southern tradition." (Sounds like it might be a good companion piece to Harry Crews's "Car.")
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Suspicion

By: McCrum, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Co.: 1997 (c.1996)

Seller ID: 25464

ISBN: 0393040461

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. Psychological thriller about two brothers -- the younger a bachelor who lives a quiet life in a small English village, the older an "expatriate Communist intellectual" who has moved to the village, with his new German wife, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Portrait of a Romantic

By: Millhauser, Steven

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1977

Seller ID: 12046

ISBN: 0-394-41165-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[solid copy, bottom front corner bumped but otherwise clean and tight; jacket edgeworn, heavy rubbing/scuffing to front panel, sticker remnant on front panel, soiling to rear panel]. [NOTE that this is stated as a "First Edition" on the copyright page--but it's the book club issue, nonetheless.]
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Prudence and the Pill

By: Mills, Hugh

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1966 (c.1965)

Seller ID: 7180

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[mild shelfwear, top corners lightly bumped; jacket shows some wear/rubbing along top/bottom edges and at corners, front panel a bit wrinkled]. "What happens when a successful, middle-aged banker and pillar of society named Gerald Hardcastle discovers that his wife possesses a supply birth control pills, even though their relationship has been platonic for fifteen years? Why, naturally, he switches the pills for aspirin tablets and waits to see what happens next." Basis for the not-overly-amusing 1968 film starring David Niven and Deborah Kerr.
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Thou Worm Jacob

By: Mirsky, Mark

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: (c.1967)

Seller ID: 10004

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, bottom rear corner very lightly bumped, minor soiling/browning to fore-edge; jacket nice and clean, minor surface wear]. The author's first novel, a comic story set in the Blue Hill Avenue district, "the disintegrating Jewish ghetto of Boston, a crumbling neighborhood next to Irish and Negro slums."
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The Stones of Summer

By: Mossman, Dow

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble Books: 2003 (c.1972)

Seller ID: 13132

ISBN: 0-7607-4884-5

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, as-new, no discernible wear to book; jacket shows very light surface wear to rear panel, slight wear at bottom edge of rear panel]. Reissue of the once-obscure 1972 novel that had effectively vanished into cult-status before being rejuvenated by Mark Moskowitz's 2002 documentary film "Stone Reader," about his own discovery of the novel and his subsequent obsessive search for its author.
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El Niño

By: Munson, Douglas Anne [aka Mercedes Lambert]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1990

Seller ID: 15478

ISBN: 0-670-83134-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[lightly shelfworn copy, spine very slightly turned; jacket shows some wear along top and bottom edges, surface rubbing, top corners slightly dog-eared]. The author's first novel, about a 34-year-old L.A. lawyer, a court-appointed defense counsel for parents accused of child abuse, who is "struggling to overcome her own tragic past [while also] trying to untangle the difficult, delicate lives of her clients." (The author, who published two additional books under the name "Mercedes Lambert," passed away in 2003; a fair amount of the acclaim which eluded her during her rather tr...
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Ethel: The Fictional Autobiography; a novel of Ethel Rosenberg

By: Nason, Tema

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: 1990

Seller ID: 7986

ISBN: 0-385-30168-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean solid copy; jacket has slight wear at corners, spine ends, and along top edge of rear panel]. The premise of this novel: "What if Ethel Rosenberg, put to death in 1953 for conspiracy after being found guilty of passing atomic bomb secrets to the Russians, had kept a diary in prison during the last year of her life?"
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Unexpected Pleasures [SIGNED]

By: Naylor, Phyllis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1986)

Seller ID: 15327

ISBN: 0-399-13198-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[moderate shelfwear to book, light fading to boards at top and bottom edges, browning and light soiling to page edges; jacket torn at spine corners, dog-eared at spine ends, worn along top edge, one small closed tear at top of rear panel, short diagonal crease at top of front flap]. INSCRIBED to TV producer/writer Joanna Lee and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. A "profoundly touching love story between a thirty-two-year-old bridgeworker and a sixteen-year-old refugee from a mobile home, a drunken father and two trollopy older sisters"; set against a backwater of blue-collar tidewater...
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A Visit to Yazoo

By: Neider, Charles

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1991

Seller ID: 2585

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Near Fine [just a trace of handling wear]. (Contemporary American Fiction) Series Trade PB A rich and ruthless banker, on his way to Florida, finds himself stranded by car trouble in a small backwoods Maryland town. "A dark, disturbing portrait of one man's fated collision with the very thing he craves-- control." A paperback original.
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Naked Eye

By: Neider, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Horizon Press: 1964 (c.1962)

Seller ID: 3097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[moderate wear, top edge dusty, agency stamp (H. N. Swanson) on ffep, tape marks on pastedowns & endpapers from formerly taped-down jacket; jacket edgeworn, faint water-stain near base of spine]. Novel about "the loves of a famous photographer"; blurbs on the front panel by Aldous Huxley, Mark Schorer and Max Eastman.
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Category: Fiction: Modern Literature