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By: Wilk, Max
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9179
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[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 electronics business in a small New England community, Walter is suddenly -- thanks to the development of an electrical gadget that... View more info
By: Williams, Jay
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1108
Condition: Very Good in Good dj
[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 interactions. What a silly notion, eh?) View more info
By: Wittenborn, Dirk
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury: 2002
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 14788
ISBN: 1-58234-242-3
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
[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
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
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 should be known about the operations of our highest tribunal and how its decisions are arrived at." This spurred him on t... View more info
![Image for The Super Summer of Jamie McBride [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/6040.jpg)
By: Wren, Christopher S., and Jack Shepherd
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1971)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6040
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[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) and his hip guide, Constance Flowersong ( age 21), as they live on 'Love, Freedom, Truth, Beauty, Credit Cards, and Birth Co... View more info
By: Young, I.S.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: (c.1973)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14339
ISBN: 0-15-192690-5
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
[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. In America, unlike Russia, he cannot practice medicine without a license. So, to make a living, he sets about opening up a ... View more info
