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By: Wagner, Geoffrey
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York/London, The Macmillan Company: (c.1963)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21008
(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, th... View more info
By: Wain, John
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1962)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2608
[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 "These Same Men [*SIGNED*]")
By: Warman, Eric
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, Ronald Whiting & Wheaton: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 22046
[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 call... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: (c.1971)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12720
[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by removal of label, a couple of much smaller scars on rear pastedown, but the only actual library marking is a small "withdrawn" stamp on the title page; spine moderately turned but just lightly worn; jacket almost perfect, with just a hint of edgewear].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 ... View more info
![Image for A Family of Shopkeepers [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/9301.jpg "A Family of Shopkeepers [*SIGNED*]")
By: Waterman, Ray
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, W. H. Allen: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9301
[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 th... View more info
By: Weber, Patricia
Price: $15.00
Publisher: La Jolla CA, Pacifica Editions: (c.1992)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9671
[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 ... View more info
By: Weston, John
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: (c.1968)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20210
[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 M... View more info
By: Wharton, William
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17845
[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... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1968)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17908
(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 "cabbi... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15276
[nice clean copy, very light wear at ends of spine; jacket shows some faint soiling, one small tear at bottom edge of front panel, tiny chip at top of spine and another at bottom front hinge]. A typical bit of farcical whimsy from this author, a spoof of international affairs about a not-(then)-too-distant future (1968) in which Britain, in the interests of maintaining world peace, is asked by the United States to grant independence to her last two colonies, Omo Lau and ... View more info
By: Wiebe, Dallas
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. / Paris Review Editions: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20934
[moderate soiling and light dampstain to top edge of text block (interior of book unaffected), white patch (probably from sticker removal) on ffep, otherwise just lightly shelfworn; jacket slightly tanned at spine, tiny stain at bottom right corner of front panel]. The first of only two published novels by this Kansas-born author (1930-2008), a ribald satire that became a small-scale literary cause célèbre after an excerpt published in The Paris Review in 1967 ignited... View more info
By: Wilk, Max
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9179
[mild shelfwear, bottom corners lightly bumped, slight browning to page edges; jacket shows a bit of wear at extremities, minor wrinkling to front panel]. The author's second novel, about "Walter Fleming, small businessman and normal neurotic," who has cause to wonder about the wisdom expressed in the book's title (as the end of a quote from Joe E. Lewis: "I have been poor and I have been rich, and believe me, rich is better."). "Partner in an electr... View more info
By: Williams, Jay
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1108
[book mildly shelfworn, a bit of soiling to edges, spine turned; jacket a little dog-eared/edgeworn, with a rather clumsily tape-repaired tear at bottom of front panel]. What is UNIAD (Universal Advisors, Inc.)? A "personal advisory guild" with limited membership, that promises it can and will change your life -- if you can meet the entrance requirements. (Imagine that -- a novel based on the idea that computers might play an important role in human social inte... View more info
By: Wittenborn, Dirk
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury: 2002
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 14788
[beautiful book, clean and unmarked, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. "A modern coming-of-age novel about a boy's struggle for survival in a lush and corrupting world," in which a 15-year-old boy is abruptly transplanted from the mean streets of New York's Lower East Side to an exclusive rural New Jersey community, thanks to his cocaine-addicted masseuse mother's hooking up with one of her clients, an aging billionaire. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co.: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7011
Near Fine in Near Fine dj [nice tight copy, faint yellowing of page edges, small dented spot on fore-edge; jacket has one small tear at upper front corner, mild chipping at spine ends]. "When [the author] was editor for a well-known television series, 'The Defenders,' he found it impossible to win approval for a script that embodied the central thesis of a Supreme Court decision. 'Far too controversial' was the network's verdict. Ths persuaded [the author] that more ... View more info
![Image for The Super Summer of Jamie McBride [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/6040.jpg "The Super Summer of Jamie McBride [*SIGNED*]")
By: Wren, Christopher S., and Jack Shepherd
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1971)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6040
[nice tight copy, faint soiling to top edge; jacket shows some wear along top edge, moderate soiling, one small damaged spot (surface peel) at top center of front panel]. INSCRIBED ("From your colleagues on the wrong side of the generation gap") and SIGNED (by both authors) on the ffep. "Everything that's going on, baby, gets a pie in the eye in this side-splitting spoof of today's radical, flower- power Youth culture. Spend a super summer with Jamie (age 13)... View more info
By: Young, I.S.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: (c.1973)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14339
[nice tight copy, remainder stripe on bottom edge (but so close to base of spine that it's easy to miss), light wear to book at spine ends; jacket shows only light surface wear]. "When thoroughly engaging and profound Uncle Herschel, a felsher (paramedic) by profession, leaves Russia around the beginning of the century and comes to live in a Jewish community in Brooklyn, he soon discovers that there is more to the business of becoming successful than meets the eye. ... View more info
