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The Secretary

By: Ringer, Vivian

Price: $30.00

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

Seller ID: 9684

ISBN: 0440082358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, very faint soiling to page edges, no significant wear; jacket shows mild soiling]. Novel (the author's first and only) about a young, attractive, single secretary, and her obsession with her boss, a New York book publisher; the jacket blurb describes it as "a warm and telling picture of a modern-day Kitty Foyle, a novel that makes clear how complicated it is to juggle the personal and professional roles of the office 'second wife.'" The author herself had come out of the New York publishing world, was co-founder of the liberal Book Find Club, and had a long career a...
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Kissing Through a Pane of Glass [SIGNED]

By: Rosenberg, Peter Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Simon and Schuster: 1993

Seller ID: 7539

ISBN: 0671718061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[bottom corners bumped, faint browning to page edges; mild surface wear to rear jacket panel, very slight edgewear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page, dated 24/6/93. A novel (the author's first) of sexual obsession, set in India and England; runner-up in the 1992 Betty Trask Prize. Signed by Author
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Experiments with Life and Deaf

By: Rosenthal, Chuck

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: (c.1987)

Seller ID: 16085

ISBN: 1-55584-104-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, one tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover, no other significant wear; minor surface wear to jacket]. (The Loop Trilogy, Book Two) Series The second book in the author's Loop Trilogy, centering around the adventures of 17-year-old Jarvis Loop, "a fugitive from the law for an ever-increasing list of offenses." The novel "offers a brilliant, hyper-real vision of coming of age in working-class America that sweeps from the wildest comedy to the darkest pathos."
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Never Mind the Goldbergs [SIGNED]

By: Roth, Matthue

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, PUSH / Scholastic, Inc.: 2005

Seller ID: 14963

ISBN: 0-439-69188-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[minor handling wear, tiny corner bends on a couple of pages; jacket shows very light surface wear, vertical crease in front flap]. INSCRIBED generically ("oy vey, dude!") and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, apparently with a black sharpie which has bled through and slightly marked the title page. "The greatest Hollywood punk rock Orothodox Jewgirl story EVER TOLD! Don't this for a second that you know Hava or her place in the world. Yes, she's an Orthodox Jew. But that doesn't mean she can't rock out. (She just has to be careful about who she touches.)" Sign...
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Coalitions

By: Rounds, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Outerbridge & Dienstfrey: 1970

Seller ID: 3111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dj

[trace of soiling on top edge; jacket rubbed, some wear along top edge, top of spine ragged with about 1/4" missing, a few holes at foldover edge of rear panel]. The author's first novel, set in Boston, centers around two interracial couples and climaxes in a dramatic civil rights demonstration.
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Midnight's Children

By: Rushdie, Salman

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1981

Seller ID: 24857

ISBN: 039451470X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [light shelfwear to bottom of book, slight fading at edges of boards, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket lightly soiled at rear panel, lower left corner of front panel has a little array of pen-point indentation lines (no ink marks, however), a little vertical creasing to front flap; there is some faint uneven fading to the front panel, which is less noticeable to the naked eye than in the accompanying scanned image]. Rushdie's second novel and his breakthrough book, which not only won the Booker Prize winner in 1981 but has been subsequently twice voted the "Best of the ...
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Extravagant Gestures [SIGNED]

By: Sager, Carole Bayer

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Arbor House: (c.1985)

Seller ID: 9396

ISBN: 0-87795-765-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows minor wear at corners, a bit of wrinkling at bottom of rear panel]. INSCRIBED warmly and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. First novel, about a troubled mother-daughter relationship, by the noted songwriter, which "vibrates with the energy of the characters and the worlds she writes about: New York and Los Angeles, media celebrity, fast-track careers, and lives that are glamorous, comical, and poignant." Jacket blurbs by Erica Jong and Neil Simon. Signed by Author
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A Few Last Words

By: Sallis, James

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: (c.1970)

Seller ID: 9271

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy, slight fading to cloth at top/bottom edges, tiny smudge on top edge near spine, one-inch surface scratch (not a puncture) on ffep, also visible on half-title and title pages; jacket has small tears at a couple of extremities, minor rubbing/soiling]. The author's first book, "A Parable and a Prophecy," in which he "takes up a number of themes from the range and variety of speculative fiction [and] writes about the intimate textures of life on worlds vastly different from our own and on some which are disturbingly similar."
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The Lion and the Sun [SIGNED]

By: Sassoon, Maurice D.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Manyland Books: (c.1978)

Seller ID: 24103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[small nick in cloth at top of front cover, light soiling to edges of text block, minor wear to extremities; jacket has some shallow chipping along right side of top edge of front panel, otherwise just minimally worn]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To / ___ _____ / Regards / Maurice / 6/9/82." A fictional treatment of "the struggle for freedom of Burma under the yoke of British colonialism" during World War II, more specifically focusing on the country's fate under Japanese occupation, in the run-up to which Burma's intellectuals and young radicals were take...
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Pride of the Bimbos

By: Sayles, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Atlantic-Little, Brown: (c.1975)

Seller ID: 19115

ISBN: 0-316-77230-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[reading copy ONLY, an ex-library book with typical markings (incl. giant DISCARD stamps on top and bottom edges and both endpapers, pocket on rear fep), scarring to pastedowns from peeling-up of formerly glued-down jacket protector flaps; jacket moderately soiled, and the spine is a mess, badly torn with some paper loss]. Sayles' first novel, about an itinerant five-man softball team that tours the Deep South in drag.
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The Handyman

By: See, Carolyn

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1999)

Seller ID: 17850

ISBN: 0-375-50155-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[beautiful, as-new book, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. "The story of Bob Hampton, an aspiring young painter who has had to face the humbling fact that he doesn't know what to paint." Thus disillusioned, "Bob trades in his artist's palette for a minivan full of house paints, hammers, and nails, and sets about earning a little cash as a handyman. Although he turns out to be very bad at fixing the things he's hired to fix, Bob demonstrates quite a knack for fixing the lives of the people around him." Yet another of the author's books that zones in acutely on so...
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Lucinella

By: Segal, Lore

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1976

Seller ID: 21881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[slight bumping to bottom front corner and base of spine, no other significant wear to book; jacket slightly faded at spine (impacting only the publisher's name), also slightly scrunched at base of spine; a review copy, with the original publisher's slip and a small photograph of the author laid in]. A novel of the New York literary life, centering around the title character, "a poet [who] lives in New York, and knows writers," and incorporating elements of magical realislm. And speaking of writers, the rear jacket panel features glowing blurbs from a pretty impressive trio of same: ...
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures

By: Selznick, Brian

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Scholastic Press:

Seller ID: 15570

ISBN: 0-439-81378-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean attractive copy, just the slightest bumping at base of spine and a teeny-tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover; jacket shows very slight wear at spine ends, tiny tear at bottom of spine]. Caldecott Award-winning illustrated tale -- do we call this a semi-graphic novel? -- about a young orphan living secretly in the remote corners of a Paris railway station, and how his life intersects with the great French filmmaker Georges Méliès. Adapted into the multiple-Oscar-nominated 2011 film HUGO by director Martin Scorsese.
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Love is Not Enough [SIGNED]

By: Shanks, Bob

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: (c.1982)

Seller ID: 9615

ISBN: 0-393-01586-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, very light soiling to top edge; jacket rubbed, mildly edgeworn, short diagonal crease in front flap, a bit of wear at bottom front corner]. INSCRIBED to a friend and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "It all begins one night in Manhattan in the company of eight naked women, who are trying to come to terms with their bodies and themselves. This novel is a compelling, contemporary love story with any number of unexpected crises and a surprisingly happy ending. It is a kind of feminist fairy tale written, interestingly enough, by a man." (Who, interestingly enough, c...
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Glimpses: A Novel [SIGNED]

By: Shiner, Lewis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: (c.1993)

Seller ID: 13540

ISBN: 0-688-12411-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean copy, minor shelfwear at base of spine; jacket shows a bit of wrinkling here and there, mostly to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, in the year of publication (dated in his hand). "Ray makes his living repairing stereos in his upstairs workshop. Like so many others of his generation he's trying to cope with lost ideals and broken dreams. The father he rebelled against for years has just died, and his marriage looks like a demilitarized zone. Then the strangest things start to happen. Ray begins to hear music in his head: glimpses...
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It Happened in Wayland [SIGNED]

By: Shroyer, Frederick

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Reynal & Company, Inc.: 1963

Seller ID: 15558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[good solid copy, minimal shelfwear, very light age-toning to page edges, old price/inventory code lightly stamped on ffep; jacket shows light wear at corners, minor chipping at top of spine, one small triangular chip at top of rear panel]. INSCRIBED warmly to a friend and SIGNED and dated (April 8, 1964) by the author on the ffep. "The story of the growth to maturity of a young man set against a powerfully evoked background of the Depression" in a small Indiana town." First published in England in 1962 as "Wayland 33." Signed by Author
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Squeegee

By: Siegel, Jack

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Horizon Press: 1965

Seller ID: 1111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[book moderately shelfworn, edges of covers soiled; jacket is scuffed and soiled, with a 1"x1-1/4" chunk missing at bottom front hinge]. "The story of a single day whose seemingly minor events shatter and transform the lives of four people: the Negro couple Benny and Althea Robinson, and the white couple David and Alice Marko, with whom, at varying levels of need, they come into contact. Before the day is over, each of them, using lust as 'false balm against the gray world,' will have been violated and revealed, to each other and to himself." The jacket blurb assures the pot...
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Central Park Underground

By: Siegel, Maxwell E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Walker and Company: 1968

Seller ID: 8966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [solid copy, mild soiling to top edge; jacket slightly dog-eared at top of spine, one small tear at bottom of rear panel]. "George Revere, when he regained consciousness, though not his memory, after being blackjacked one hot August night, learned a great deal about the Park and its secret life."
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Heir [SIGNED]

By: Simon, Roger Lichtenberg

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: (c.1968)

Seller ID: 2845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[mild shelfwear, green inked dot (remainder mark?) on bottom edge; jacket has one small tear at top fo spine]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. The author's first novel, being essentially "the diary of Marcus Rottner, aged twenty-four, heir to a major American fortune [and] heir to the frustrations of his contemporaries"; eventually he "splits, cracks, turns inside out into the abyss of violence, drugs, madness until...." Signed by Author
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Cosmetic Effects [SIGNED]

By: Sinclair, Clive

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1990

Seller ID: 22477

ISBN: 0-670-83341-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, minimal handling wear, top corners slightly bumped; jacket just a teensy bit rubbed]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "for ____ & ______ / with admiration & / love from / Clive Sinclair / Chelsea, Summer 2000." "A novel about terrorism and infidelity that manages to be simultaneously hilarious, apocalyptic, and erotic. It tells the story of Jonah Isaacson, who lectures in film at the University of St. Albans," who discovers the glories of powdered rhinoceros horn -- "not only the greatest aphrodisiac he's ever had, but something th...
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit