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The Elizabethan Garden

By: Sykes, Pamela

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: 1973 (c.1972)

Seller ID: 5117

ISBN: 0381982335

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[tight/solid, mild darkening of top edge; jacket's front panel rubbed, spine a bit browned, minor chipping at spine ends].
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Dr. I.R.T.

By: Tanner, Louise

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan: (c.1976)

Seller ID: 3696

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minimal wear to book, slight fading to cloth at top edge; jacket rubbed, a few edge tears, some chipping & dog-earing at spine extremities, 1/4" x 1/4" damaged spot at top left of front panel]. Story of an unlikely pair -- Miss Eunice Tichenor, an eccentric NYPL librarian, and Snake (aka "Dr. I.R.T."), a Yale dropout/Vietnam war deserter/rock songwriter -- and the young Mexican student they take under their collective wing.
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Rules for Saying Goodbye [SIGNED]

By: Taylor, Katherine

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2007

Seller ID: 15684

ISBN: 0374252718

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket has a tiny bit of wrinkling along the top edge]. INSCRIBED boldly ("______ / Hearting you!") and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, and addtionally SIGNED on the title page, with a line drawn through her printed name. Debut novel, in which the protagonist, Kate (hmmm) "makes the unlikely migration from suburban California to the chilly rigor of a New England prep school, and then to Manhattan. Here she will enjoy a dissipated life of bartending and writing novels, falling in love with the wrong boys, and discussing the...
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The Good Thief

By: Tinti, Hannah

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press: 2008

Seller ID: 16071

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, very slight bumping to lower corners but no other discernible wear; jacket shows very faint surface wear, very slight crimping at top of spine]. "Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, [this novel] introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents." Her debut novel, following a story collection, "Animal Crackers."
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Tightrope Minor

By: Topor, Tom

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1971

Seller ID: 16896

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[very presentable book, with light shelfwear and faint soiling to bottom edge, slight bumping to bottom corners, minor dust-soiling to top edge; jacket shows a bit of wear at corners, small closed tear at top of front panel]. The playwright and (more recently) thriller writer's scarce first novel, "the story of Charlie Minor, of what he is and what he wants to be and of how he manages to become almost a hero. Charlie is a dreamer, a lover, a veteran, an ex-Communist, a diligent men' s room entrepreneur-employee of the New York City Parks Department, a faithful fan of the late late movie,...
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The Hated One

By: Tracy, Don

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Trident Press/Simon & Schuster: (c.1963)

Seller ID: 8009

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[solid copy with minor shelfwear; jacket soiled, edgeworn, bottom 2-1/2" of spine missing]. Novel about an alcoholic lawyer who returns to his hometown in North Florida, where he gets involved in defending the daughter of a former family servant against a charge that she murdered a prominent local (white) citizen. "Once he becomes convinced of her innocence, he faces the crucial problem--how he, almost as hated by the community as [the woman], can secure her a fair trial and acquittal."
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The Box: A Conversation Piece

By: Turpin, Allan

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: (c.1965)

Seller ID: 13215

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice tight clean copy, very light shelfwear; jacket shows some minor surface wear, a couple of rubbed spots at corners and edges, black markings at upper left part of front panel and top of spine, a couple of small tears]. "The 'box' of the title of this charmingly witty novel is one of the largest in the London variety theater in the 1920's. Complimentary entrée to it is the weekly privilege of the London dramatic critic of the newspaper Retriever -- a position occupied first by Robert Chancellor and then by his youngest brother, Johnny. Pride in its possession comes, however, from the...
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The Panama Story

By: Vasilou, George

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Jericho NY, Exposition Press: (c.1974)

Seller ID: 20807

ISBN: 0-682-47926-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[some shelfwear to bottom edge, top corners and top of spine bumped, slight discoloration to pastedowns; jacket lightly rubbed and a bit edgeworn]. Vanity-press novel set during World War II, about "a draftee first sergeant among the first group of new soldiers shipped to tropical Panama Canal Zone to bolster up the regular forces immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor." Per the jacket blurb, it's "a lusty tale that encompasses more than a wartime experience. It reveals differently the way war neurosis changes men even when far from combat. But it also unfolds the only wa...
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Hart

By: Veillon, Lee

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1974)

Seller ID: 3194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[a little wear along bottom edge, one corner slightly bumped; jacket has mild edge/corner wear, wrinkling/chipping at top of spine, some rubbing]. "This is the story of Hart, the brokeback, who knew his place, and his place was where he had always been, shuffling around the Vieux Carre, the Quarter in New Orleans. The Quarter knew Hart and trusted him, with the affectionate embarrassment bestowed on children who are ugly, not quite loved but tolerated. .... Hart, the brokeback, was searching for his father. He kept himself alive by collecting bits and pieces from the local dumps and sell...
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Love Lies Bleeding

By: Viertel, Peter

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1964

Seller ID: 16813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy, very light shelfwear, shallow dent at top of rear cover; jacket is clean and attractive despite one short and slightly ragged closed tear at bottom of front panel and another at top of rear panel]. My God, did any writer ever want to be Hemingway as badly (and baldly) as Peter Viertel? His 1992 memoir, "Dangerous Friends: At Large with Hemingway and Huston in the Fifties," while a fascinating read, is also more than occasionally a little sickening for the degree of sycophancy it displays towards "Papa." Anyway, it's not surprising that he waited until the ol...
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Joe the Engineer [SIGNED]

By: Wachtel, Chuck

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London/New York, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd: 1985 (c.1983)

Seller ID: 4498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[corners bumped, otherwise nice and clean, except for a gray stain of undetermined origin along the rear gutter (interior binding); jacket somewhat rubbed, mild wear/wrinkling along top edge, 1/2" tear at top right edge of front panel, a couple of diagonal creases in front flap]. Uncommon British edition of the author's highly-regarded first novel, SIGNED and dated (July 31, 1987) by the author on the title page, with an additional authorial inscription and first-name signature. Signed by Author
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Joe the Engineer

By: Wachtel, Chuck

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1983

Seller ID: 11760

ISBN: 0-688-01548-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[ex-library, minimally marked as such (just a "discard" stamp on the rear fep) but with other traces, notably large glue stains on both pastedowns (and bleeding through both jacket flaps), the single letter "F" on the ffep, and a tiny scar on the rear fep (from removal of some sort of label, I presume); the jacket itself, aside from the aforementioned glue stains, is quite presentable, with just some minor soiling, one small tear at top of rear panel, one tiny tear at top of front panel]. "The intensely human story of [this book] takes place in Richmond Hill, Queens, New Yo...
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The Asphalt Campus: Monotremata of the Academe

By: Wagner, Geoffrey

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York/London, The Macmillan Company: (c.1963)

Seller ID: 21008

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped, although price remains visible) [good sound copy, moderate shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket shows some wear at spine ends, one-inch diagonal closed tear at top left corner of front panel, with associated wrinkling/creasing across top edge of front panel, also small closed tears at both top corners of rear panel]. Scarce novel set on the campus of the fictional "Lincoln College, purveyor of education to the vast multitudes of New York City's youth, the people with the unpronounceable names and the flat pocketbooks, who flow in daily by subway." The story, a tract again...
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These Same Men [SIGNED]

By: Warman, Eric

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Ronald Whiting & Wheaton: 1966

Seller ID: 22046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very slight wear to base of spine, faint soiling to top of text block; jacket slightly browned at spine, minor scuffing to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "For Sally & Chris / Affectionately, / Eric / October 1966." Novel about a strange sort of romantic triangle, involving a British television personality, a "wealthy but unstable" young poet, and the latter's fiancee. When the TV guy (an acerbic panel member on a show called the "Television Brains Trust") gets to messing around with the fiancee, a practice known as Candaulism comes into ...
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Meeting the Pieman

By: Wartofsky, Victor

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: (c.1971)

Seller ID: 12720

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

[ex-library book, ffep badly scarred by removal of label, a couple of much smaller scars on rear pastedown, but the only actual library marking is a small "withdrawn" stamp on the title page; spine moderately turned but just lightly worn; jacket almost perfect, with just a hint of edgewear]. "A violent novel about a Jewish grocer in a black ghetto. Because Simon Farber can't find a job anymore as a carpenter, a trade he has worked at all his life, he allows himself to be talked into a supposedly money-making proposition involving little effort: to buy and manage a small grocery st...
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A Family of Shopkeepers [SIGNED]

By: Waterman, Ray

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, W. H. Allen: 1973

Seller ID: 9301

ISBN: 0-491-01230-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[moderate shelfwear, all corners bumped to some degree, minor soiling to page edges; jacket worn at edges/corners, a few small tears, dampstain across bottom of spine, internally tape-reinforced at both ends of spine]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel about Jewish immigrants settling in London's East End in the early 20th century. "Especially [the book] is about Jacob and Ada Samuels, Jews who have immigrated from Poland to Stepney. She tells of the life they create for themselves in a country strange, if not actually hostile; of the shop that they own and live above; and of thei...
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A Shadow World

By: Weber, Patricia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: La Jolla CA, Pacifica Editions: (c.1992)

Seller ID: 9671

ISBN: 0-9617765-0-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book is tight and clean, with the faintest trace of wear to bottom edge; jacket shows minor wear at top of spine, faint surface wear]. "The book deals with several generations of the family of Gregor Morghann," with episodes set in Nairobi and California -- specifically La Jolla (described as a "utopian fishing village"), where most of the novel takes place. The main character is the grandson of the original Gregor Morghann (also named Gregor), who "early in his life becomes an expert surfer and an excellent underwater photographer. A mysterious lady enters his life and...
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Hail, Hero!

By: Weston, John

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: (c.1968)

Seller ID: 20210

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, minor wear to base of spine; jacket slightly age-toned at spine, no other significant wear]. Novel about "the twenty-four hours in the life of a young man just before he goes into military service," even though he's passionately against war and does intend to do any killing: "he wants only to look in the face of the man who will try to kill him, and love that man if he can." Basis for the 1970 film of the same name, directed by David Miller and starring a young Michael Douglas in his first starring role, with Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright as his uncompreh...
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Birdy

By: Wharton, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1979

Seller ID: 17845

ISBN: 0-394-42569-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[a bit of soiling at top and bottom edges of covers, faint foxing to top page edges, spine slightly turned; jacket shows moderate wear at edges and corners, surface rubbing, vertical crease in rear flap, small tear at top front foldover (rendered unobtrusive by new jacket protector)]. The author's first novel, a National Book Award winner, which takes the reader "into the life -- into the abrasive real world, the extraordinary mind and the inspired obsession -- of a boy whose entire being, from his thirteenth year, is focused on his desire for flight, on his fascination with birds." O...
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In the Balance

By: White, M.E. [Mary Ellen]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1968)

Seller ID: 17908

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice clean copy, with light shelfwear; jacket slightly wrinkled at top of front panel, very minor dog-earing at top of spine]. A bit of Sixties-ness, "a satire and very funny in parts, but also a tragedy." Per the jacket blurb, it's "the story of a girl's round trip to the dentist's office" -- but actually there seems to be quite a lot more to it. The action wanders episodically all over California, North and South, involving "cabbies, truck drivers and hub-cap collectors," and "each step of [the heroine's] journey is parallel with some other, [an...
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit