Showing 181-200 of 237
By: Sallis, James
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: (c.1970)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9271
[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 o... View more info
By: Sayles, John
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Company: (c.1977)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16946
[tight, unread copy, with just minor dust-soiling to top edge; jacket shows a bit of wear at corners and spine ends]. The author-filmmaker's second novel, set in the revolutionary underground in Boston in the late 1960s. View more info
By: Sayles, John
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Atlantic-Little, Brown: (c.1975)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19115
[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. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann: (c.1965)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3820
[mild edgewear to both book and DJ; mild soiling/slight discoloration to top edge, a couple of bent page corners]. View more info
By: See, Carolyn
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1999)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17850
[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 qui... View more info
By: Segal, Lore
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21881
[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 magi... View more info
By: Selznick, Brian
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Scholastic Press:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15570
[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 mult... View more info
![Image for Love is Not Enough [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/9615.jpg "Love is Not Enough [*SIGNED*]")
By: Shanks, Bob
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: (c.1982)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9615
[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 ha... View more info
By: Shem, Samuel
Price: $4.50
Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing Co.: 1988 (c.1978)
Edition: 2nd ptg. thus
Seller ID: 14057
[decent, clean copy, with moderate edgewear and slight spine roll; reading creases in spine, slight binding split starting in middle of book]. Mass Market PB The "Special Tenth Anniversary Edition" of this medi-cult novel, described by one blurber as "Catch-22 with stethoscopes." With a new Introduction by the author. View more info
![Image for Glimpses: A Novel [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/13540.jpg "Glimpses: A Novel [*SIGNED*]")
By: Shiner, Lewis
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: (c.1993)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 13540
[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 marriag... View more info
![Image for It Happened in Wayland [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15558.jpg "It Happened in Wayland [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, Reynal & Company, Inc.: 1963
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15558
[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 Indian... View more info
By: Siegel, Jack
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Horizon Press: 1965
Edition: 1st (unstated)
Seller ID: 1111
[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 agains... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Walker and Company: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8966
(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." View more info
![Image for Heir [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/2845.jpg "Heir [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Macmillan: (c.1968)
Edition: First printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 2845
[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 View more info
![Image for Cosmetic Effects [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/22477.jpg "Cosmetic Effects [*SIGNED*]")
By: Sinclair, Clive
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Viking: 1990
Edition: First American Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 22477
[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," wh... View more info
By: Sipherd, Ray
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1990)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18134
[lovely book, tight and clean, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. Novel of mature romance between the title character, "a proud woman -- proud of her Yankee heritage, proud of her own feisty independence, and proud, too, that she and her small sailboat can outsail any man or woman in the coastal town of Hasty Harbor, Maine," and a retired admiral who she meets at the launching of a navy ship. Laid in is a 1990 letter from a Hollywood TV producer... View more info
By: Smith, Dodie
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Company: (c.1963)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 18696
(price-clipped) [spine slightly turned, bottom corners bumped, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket edgeworn, small tears at several corners, small chip at top of spine, slight browning/fading to spine, light soiling to rear panel]. Novel about a woman who signs on as a secretary-housekeeper to a handsome widower ensconced in a comfortable country house with his four attractive and talented children. All is happy in "the delightful private world of Dome House,... View more info
![Image for Ursus Major [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/12003.jpg "Ursus Major [*SIGNED*]")
By: Smoodin, Roberta
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 12003
[remainder stamp on bottom edge, light soiling to page edges, a couple of slightly bent lower page corners; jacket a bit soiled, marks on spine from old labels]. SIGNED by the author (signature only) on the half-title page. Her first novel, about "your everyday, decent, wholesome ber whom fortune piteously obliges to suffer the abundant society of men. Which is not to suggest that this bear is entirely the blameless bystander to those zany events that usher him fr... View more info
By: Snider, Paul
Price: $10.00
Publisher: [New York], Bernard Geis Associates: (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14658
[light shelfwear, one tiny nick at top edge of front cover; jacket worn at extremities, a couple of small tears at top of front panel, a couple more at bottom of rear panel]. Novel set in Detroit, "a story of violence -- of brother against brother in brutal battle; of man against the union, where simple strength is pitted against dynamite and numbers; of man against a system, where he cannot be his own master." The author was a Detroit native and a Korean War ve... View more info
By: Sohl, Jerry
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2741
[mild wear to book, spine slightly turned; DJ worn at edges/corners, torn at top hinges, various small chips/tears]. A novel in which "twelve people, strangers to each other except for husbands and wives, are brought together in a California motel to experience today's newest form of psychotherapy, the 'marathon' or '300- year weekend.' Old and young, married and single, black and white, they spend the entire weekend with a psychologist in a non-stop truth game, wit... View more info
