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Famous Potatoes

By: Cottonwood, Joe

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence: (c.1979)

Seller ID: 8829

ISBN: 0-440-03098-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[minimal shelfwear, front cover very slightly bowed; jacket shows just a trace of surface wear]. (line drawings) "...the exuberant, irresistible story of the adventures of Willy Middlebrook, a.k.a. Willy Crusoe--veteran, fugitive, wanderer, and lover. On the lam from a spurious murder charge, with an aching heart and broken balls, Willy sets off in search of his mystical bride, Erica." A damn funny book, if memory serves (and sometimes it does).
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The Concrete Wilderness

By: Couffer, Jack

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Meredith Press: (c.1967)

Seller ID: 3981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[book just slightly worn, a bit of residue to edges of front/rear pastedowns where jacket had been stuck down; jacket has chipping/some paper loss at both ends of spine, various small tears along bottom of front panel (+ small triangular pc. Missing + various associated creases)]. Novel about a New York City freelance photographer and amateur naturalist, who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 14-year-old boy who is hiding a wild dog in the subterranean world of New York's storm drains and culverts. The author was a cinematographer and director, whose credits, oddly enough, included sever...
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The Destruction Committee

By: Coughlin, William J.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Harrap: 1971

Seller ID: 13284

ISBN: 0-245-50549-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[solid copy, but with some slighly unsightly brown staining to bottom page edges, light dust-soiling to top edge, spine slightly turned; jacket sunned at spine, mild edgewear, faint stain on front panel, one tiny tear at bottom of rear panel]. Novel about "six Vietnam War veterans, graduates of the toughest kind of guerilla training. Every month they meet to select a target for assassination. The candidate for death must be socially undesirable, have no dependent relatives, and provide the team with the challenge necessary to maintain the same razor-sharp efficiency in killing which the...
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The Kneeling Bus [SIGNED]

By: Coyle, Beverly

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Ticknor & Fields: 1990

Seller ID: 8610

ISBN: 0-89919-932-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean unread copy, no discernible wear; jacket flawless except for tiny scrape near base of spine, small scuff mark on rear panel]. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signataure only). Not quite a "novel" (though the jacket copy calls it such), this is rather a series of eight interconnected stories depicting the narrator's coming- of-age in Florida in the 1950's. Whatever ... it's an absolutely terrific book, odd and off-center and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. One of the stories deals with a personal encounter, more or less, with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The autho...
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The Kneeling Bus

By: Coyle, Beverly

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Ticknor & Fields: 1990

Seller ID: 12054

ISBN: 0-89919-932-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice clean tight copy, faint wear to spine ends; rear jacket panel scuffed and edgeworn]. Not quite a "novel" (though the jacket copy calls it such), this is rather a series of eight interconnected stories depicting the narrator's coming- of-age in Florida in the 1950's. Whatever ... it's an absolutely terrific book, odd and off-center and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. One of the stories deals with a personal encounter, more or less, with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The author's first work of fiction; she has published two additional novels to date, which I can also ...
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Taken In

By: Coyle, Beverly

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1998

Seller ID: 17638

ISBN: 0-670-86398-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[a lovely, fresh, as-new copy]. This wonderful writer's third book, a superb novel about a family with relatively ordinary problems of its own which become exponentially more complicated as they get involved, for the best of motives, with a runaway girl and her violent boyfriend.
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Car [SIGNED twice]

By: Crews, Harry

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1972

Seller ID: 17176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[solid clean copy, a couple of very shallow dents to bottom edges of boards, minor scrunching at fore-edge of a few pages; jacket shows a bit of wrinkling, no tears or chips]. SIGNED by the author, on a card affixed to the ffep, and SIGNED again on the title page. A gruesomely funny novel about a guy who agrees to eat a car (a 1971 Ford Maverick, if you must know), half an ounce at a time, in a hotel lobby, with a national TV hookup. Crews has his finger on the pulse (or the throttle) of America's love affair with the automobile, and spins an outrageous yet entirely plausible satire, that f...
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Naked in Garden Hills [SIGNED twice]

By: Crews, Harry

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1969

Seller ID: 17180

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[shelfwear to book covers at top and bottom edges, spine slightly turned; jacket moderately soiled, wrinkling and a few tiny tears at edges, two faint price-sticker shadows on front panel, rubbing/scuffing to spine]. SIGNED twice by the author, on a card affixed to the ffep and again on the title page. The author's second novel, set in "a corrupted paraside, the Florida-peninsula town of Garden Hills, which once flourished as the site of the world's largest phosphate mine and now is nearly abandoned, decrepit." The book is the second state (two dots at bottom of copyright page), as i...
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Shoot!

By: Cronley, Jay

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1997

Seller ID: 11763

ISBN: 0-312-15655-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, appears unread, NO remainder or other marks, very tiny dent at right edge of front cover; jacket shows a little shopwear at edges (and a tiny bump/scrape matching aforementioned cover dent), light scuffing here and there]. A very funny novel by a very funny writer -- about a discontented married couple, each of whom simultaneously hits on the solution to their problems: hiring a professional killer to eliminate their (well-insured) other half.
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Quick Change

By: Cronley, Jay

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1981

Seller ID: 13876

ISBN: 0385151802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[clean tight book, light remainder spray on bottom edge, otherwise only minor shelfwear; jacket edgeworn, moderately scuffed/soiled, a couple of unobtrusive closed tears]. Comic novel about "the Emmett Kelly of crime" -- a bank robber who pulls off his heists dressed in a fright wig and a polka-dotted clown suit. Basis for the somewhat underrated 1990 film directed by and starring Bill Murray (and also bearing at least a glancing resemblance to the 2006 Spike Lee joint "Inside Man").
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The Twice-Born

By: Crowe, Cecily

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 22532

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book, minimal shelfwear; jacket shows a trace of scrunching at spine ends, slight fading to spine, minor edgewear to rear panel]. Uncommon novel about "a fine-bred, talented woman who, in the most ladylike way, slips into alcoholism -- and takes the reader with her." "The Lost Weekend" is evoked in the jacket blurb, and the book traces its heroine's descent "from the 'drink to dress with' to the gallon jug of sherry, from the 'non-addictive sleeping pill' to a dependence on drugs to get from from day to day," to the point where she is "physically battere...
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Not Soldiers All [SIGNED]

By: Crowley, Robert T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co.: 1967

Seller ID: 7438

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[moderate wear at corners and spine ends, spine very slightly turned; jacket moderately worn/soiled, small tears and some chipping at top of spine, a couple of tiny edge-tears]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author opposite the title page. "An exciting and suspense-filled novel about an American army surgeon in the Italian campaign of World War II who risks his life to save a wounded fellow officer caught behind enemy lines -- and himself from a nagging guilt his conscience won't ignore." Signed by Author
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A Home at the End of the World

By: Cunningham, Michael

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 1990

Seller ID: 16167

ISBN: 0-374-17250-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[clean copy, a bit of shelfwear, slight bump to bottom front corner, shallow dent at top of rear cover; jacket shows some surface wear, minor wrinkling along top edge of front panel, short diagonal creases in rear flap]. The author's second novel, the story of a modern-day love triangle that produces a child and various other complications. In the wake of the success of the 2002 movie adaptation of Cunningham's "The Hours," a film was made of this book, too (with the author screenplaying his own work); alas, despite a pretty good cast (Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Sissy Spacek),...
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Golden States

By: Cunningham, Michael

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc.: (c.1984)

Seller ID: 18373

ISBN: 0517552795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped, else Fine) [a very nice copy, the faintest finger-smudge and a couple of tiny pencil marks on top edge near spine, tiny diagonal crease at bottom of one page (due to accidentally turned-up corner); jacket is virtually flawless but for the price-clipping, and has been spared the sunning/yellowing that commonly afflicts this book]. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first novel, which he reportedly was determined to finish by the time he turned 30, whether the book turned out "good, bad or indifferent." Jim Shepard and Denis Johnson liked it (per the jacket blurbs), but...
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Six Black Horses

By: Davis, Nolan

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1971)

Seller ID: 17921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[solid copy, minimal shelfwear, light age-toning to page edges, faint tape marks (from what?) at top and bottom edges of endpapers; jacket nice and white, with just a trace of soiling, minor wear at top of spine]. The Kansas City-born author's first book (and alas, to date his only novel), an absurdist comic tale set at the nexus of KC's funeral services industry and its African-American community. The protagonist, a young man named Lawrence Xavier Jordan -- obviously a stand-in for the author himself, who once served as an undertaker's apprentice -- learns all about both the technical and &#...
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Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies

By: De Haven, Tom

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Bks/Henry Holt: 1996

Seller ID: 2680

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[remainder mark on top edge, a couple of tiny dents at top and bottom of boards, otherwise a clean, tight, unread book; jacket shows minimal handling wear]. Another comic-strip homage from De Haven; this one does for the 1930's what his earlier book, Funny Papers, did for the 1890's. The book was designed by Art Spiegelman with Kelly Soong, and features a color frontispiece, a full-page Sunday "Derby Dugan" strip by "Walter Geebus," the book's protagonist (actually drawn by Spiegelman).
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The Satyr

By: DeMaria, Robert

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 14038

ISBN: 0491001290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[nice tight copy, minimal shelfwear, marred only by some light spotting to fore-edge; jacket somewhat rubbed and scuffed, a few small edge-tears]. Darkly comic novel about a 35-year-old textbook editor (described as "a sensualist on a grand scale") with two objectives in life: (1) to marry a virgin, e.g. his 20-year-old girlfriend; and (2) to avoid being disinherited by his mother, who can't stand his fiancee. He decides, therefore, "that the only logical thing to do is to bump off mama before she has a chance to bump him out of her will. And off we go on one of the funniest, mos...
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Doctor on Trial

By: Denker, Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: (c.1992)

Seller ID: 8233

ISBN: 0-688-11388-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[some shelfwear to bottom edge, mild soiling at page edges, shows evidence of having been read, but still quite a decent copy; jacket shows minor surface wear, a bit of wrinkling along top edge, no tears or chips]. When the daughter of the most powerful man in New York City dies in the emergency room of a city hospital, "beautiful, dedicated young doctor" Kate Forrester finds herself charged with malpractice and manslaughter. Although "her innocence is clear, the hospital authorities fear a ruinous lawsuit and media fire [and]to avoid the risk, they abandon her to face [the rich g...
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The Next-to-Last Train Ride

By: Dennis, Charles

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1974

Seller ID: 13450

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[good solid copy, top front corner very lightly bumped, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket has a pinky-tip-size chunk missing at top of front panel, dog-earing at top of spine]. "You cast the movie," begins the jacket blurb -- but alas, despite the author's (or at least the blurb writer's) strenuous-to-the-point-of-tedious suggestions ("Al Pacino? (or Dustin Hoffman?) as Michael Rangeloff, the hapless all-American con-man..." etc.), no movie has ever emerged from this "zany-sad-funny-mad saga of a lovably corrupt Candide's adventurous journey across America." (Or i...
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The Beach Road

By: Diamond, Sarah

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Orion: 2000

Seller ID: 14314

ISBN: 0-75283-784-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[lovely, as-new copy, with just the faintest bit of surface rubbing to rear panel of dust jacket]. The author's highly praised debut novel, a psychological thriller about two teenage girls who are drawn together by their personal troubles, despite being seemingly of quite opposite personalities.
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit