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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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The Courtship of Peggy McCoy

By: Sipherd, Ray

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1990)

Seller ID: 18134

ISBN: 0-312-04286-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[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 to actress Lee Remick, who apparently was under consideration for the leading role in a proposed adaptation; Remick died the...
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Copper Highway [SIGNED]

By: Smith, E. Curtis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Dorrance & Company: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 22796

ISBN: 0805916784

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean book, minor bumping and slight wear to base of spine; jacket has about a 2" closed tear near bottom front hinge, a couple of other tiny nicks, mild soiling]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "This novel is the story of Scott Mercer, a fascinating witness to the growth and development of the era of electricity in America. Scott rises, through the twists and turns of a beguiling plot, from the position of lamplighter in a small Eastern town to the leadership of the mighty Upstate Electric Light and Power Company." The Ohio-born author, per the jacket blu...
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Ursus Major [SIGNED]

By: Smoodin, Roberta

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1980

Seller ID: 12003

ISBN: 0-394-50973-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[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 from relative obscurity to the very threshold of Hollywood stardom. Because this particular bear, decent and wholesome and eve...
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Edgar Henry

By: Snider, Paul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: [New York], Bernard Geis Associates: (c.1967)

Seller ID: 14658

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[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 veteran; this was his first (and apparently only) novel.
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The Lemon Eaters

By: Sohl, Jerry

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1967)

Seller ID: 2741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[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, with only a few hours respite each night for sleeping." A mainstream novel by an author (who went through a "sensitivit...
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Two Lives, Two Lands [SIGNED]

By: Solomon, Ruth Freeman

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1975)

Seller ID: 23880

ISBN: 0399116729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[spine moderately turned, otherwise nice and clean with only minimal shelfwear; jacket shows a bit of wear at corners, a few tiny nicks and tears, light staining along right edge of front panel]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the ffep. The concluding book in a trilogy, this historical novel continues the saga of the Pirov family, chronicled in the author's earlier books "The Candlesticks and the Cross" and "The Eagle and the Dove." In this installment, "the family finds their world balance on the brink of World War I and the growing threat of the Bolshevik Rev...
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Candy

By: Southern, Terry, and Mason Hoffenberg

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1964)

Seller ID: 19936

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, very light shelfwear, one-time owner's address label on ffep; jacket slightly age-toned, a trace of wear along top edge, two-inch wrinkle/pucker along top rear hinge, minor soiling to rear panel]. Erotic take-off on Voltaire's Candide -- generally thought of as an artifact of the 1960s, although it was first published in France (as by "Maxwell Kenton") in 1958 -- here making its first legit (i.e., non-smuggled) appearance in the U.S., this also being the first hardcover issue, ditto the first with the authors' real names acknowledged. The book has (thankfully) outli...
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Secret Anniversaries

By: Spencer, Scott

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Seller ID: 15475

ISBN: 0-394-57817-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[nice tight unread copy, no significant wear but a red remainder stripe on bottom edge close to spine; jacket shows only light handling wear]. Novel set in 1940, in which a young "government girl" enters into a love affair with another woman; both of them are aides to a Congressman who, "in his effort to keep America out of the war, has slipped into collaboration with the Fascists."
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Bedrock; a work of fiction composed of fifteen scenes from my life

By: Spielberg, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Trumansburg NY, The Crossing Press: (c.1973)

Seller ID: 5118

ISBN: 0912278390

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dj

(pictorial boards; no dust jacket) [good solid book, moderate shelfwear, faint soiling to top edge]. The author's first full-length published book, which he claims, title notwithstanding, "has no connection with geology. None. Note that the titleword is a compound with equal stress on both constituents. It would, therefore, be an error to place more emphasis on, say, BED than on ROCK. Or vice versa." (The book's three sections -- "birth," "copulation" and " death" -- derive from a T.S. Eliot quotation.)
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The Collaborator [SIGNED]

By: Stebel, S.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1968)

Seller ID: 4646

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book is very nice, tight and clean; jacket has a bit of edgewear, and a 1-1/2" diagonal razor cut/tear on the spine, plus minor chipping/peeling at the base of the spine; there is also a vertical crease in the rear flap]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel about an Israeli (ex-German) government economist, who is accused of an earlier collaboration with the Nazis. Signed by Author
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Quill

By: Steiner, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1973)

Seller ID: 2665

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[slight fading at top of boards; jacket rubbed/soiled, spine a bit sun-faded, wrinkled & dog-eared at top of spine]. "The subject is Quill: lunatic, hypochondriac, kept man, rapist, murderer, and the author of several scholarly works including a text on the pathology of an undiscovered snow creature and the extensive history of moon warfare entitled 'Past Particles.' Or, he is perhaps sane, ravaged by disease, passionate, an innocent victim, a genius of prescience." [And, I might add, the subject of a fabulous jacket illustration! (scan available upon request)].
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The Big U

By: Stephenson, Neal

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 1984

Seller ID: 5087

ISBN: 0394723627

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[tight, attractive, apparently unread copy; mild edgewear, a bit of soiling to page edges, faint red stripe across top edge, a couple of tiny creases in front cover]. Trade PB Very presentable copy of the author's first novel, a trade paperback original about campus life described as "One flew over the animal house." Stephenson's long-standing resolve to never allow this early work to be reprinted did finally crumble,and a reissue is now available; given the following he has now achieved, however, this true first edition will remain no less collectable in years to come.
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Beginners [SIGNED]

By: Strange, Maureen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co.: 1979

Seller ID: 7963

ISBN: 0-385-14518-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minimal wear to book; jacket has some soiling/spotting on front panel, a bit of wear at extremities]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, a nice personal inscription stating that "I had some of the best times of my life writing this." Subtitled (on the jacket) "A Family Story," the novel follows the fortunes of a young Brooklyn married couple in the 1950s and 1960s, "she the forties teen-ager who lands a husband and plunges headlong into motherhood,he the young sailor-turned-cop who is swept up in her tidal wave without ever really knowing what hit him. Togethe...
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit