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By: Steinhardt, Anne
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4934
ISBN: 0-670-38335-X
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[nice tight book, mild soiling to top edge; jacket has minor edgewear, a couple of creases in front flap]. "In her new work--perhaps the only "how-to" novel ever published--[the author] explores the zany West Coast world of the 1960s, and more specifically the hot-bed of that new life style, Berkeley, California." View more info
By: Stephenson, Neal
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5087
ISBN: 0-394-72362-7
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. View more info
![Image for Beginners [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/7963.jpg)
By: Strange, Maureen
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co.: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 7963
ISBN: 0-385-14518-7
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... View more info
![Image for Gift of the Golden Mountain [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/11937.jpg)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Villard Books: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 11937
ISBN: 0-394-55064-1
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[beautiful copy, tight/clean, appears unread; jacket a little bit wrinkled at base of spine, otherwise flawless]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. "The story of a family's passions, past and present, played out against the explosive Vietnam era in San Francisco and Berkeley, Hawaii, China and finally the fall of Saigon in 1975. It chronicles the odyssey of a young, part-Chinese heiress, May Reade, as she searches through her illustrious heritage for the roots of her own identity and her struggle to reconcile her Asian self with the American." Continues the ... View more info
By: Sykes, Pamela
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: 1973 (c.1972)
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Seller ID: 5117
ISBN: 0381982335
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]. View more info
By: Tanner, Louise
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan: (c.1976)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3696
ISBN: 0-698-10730-6
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. View more info
![Image for Rules for Saying Goodbye [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15684.jpg)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15684
ISBN: 0374252718
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... View more info
By: Topor, Tom
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16896
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,... View more info
By: Tracy, Don
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Trident Press/Simon & Schuster: (c.1963)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8009
ISBN: NO
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." View more info
By: Turpin, Allan
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: (c.1965)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13215
ISBN: NO
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... View more info
By: Vasilou, George
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Jericho NY, Exposition Press: (c.1974)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20807
ISBN: 0-682-47926-8
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... View more info
By: Veillon, Lee
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1974)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3194
ISBN: 0-06-014508-0
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... View more info
By: Viertel, Peter
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16813
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... View more info
![Image for Joe the Engineer [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/4498.jpg)
By: Wachtel, Chuck
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London/New York, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd: 1985 (c.1983)
Edition: 1st U.K. ed
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 4498
ISBN: 0-7145-2831-5
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 View more info
By: Wachtel, Chuck
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 11760
ISBN: 0-688-01548-4
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... View more info
By: Wagner, Geoffrey
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York/London, The Macmillan Company: (c.1963)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21008
ISBN: NO
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... View more info
By: Wain, John
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1962)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2608
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[book mildly edgeworn, boards slightly bowed, a couple of tiny tears in cloth at top of spine; jacket worn at corners and edges, chipped/small tears at spine extremities]. Novel set largely in post-WWII Paris, with a jazz background. View more info
![Image for These Same Men [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/22046.jpg)
By: Warman, Eric
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, Ronald Whiting & Wheaton: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 22046
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 ... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: (c.1971)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12720
ISBN: NO
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... View more info
![Image for A Family of Shopkeepers [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/9301.jpg)
By: Waterman, Ray
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, W. H. Allen: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9301
ISBN: 0-491-01230-6
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... View more info
