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Voltaire! Voltaire! [SIGNED]

By: Endore, Guy

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1961

Seller ID: 20604

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [solid clean book with no significant wear; jacket shows some edgewear, small closed tear at top of rear panel, minor surface damage to rear panel]. SIGNED by the author (signature only) on the ffep. Biographical novel tracing the parallel lives of Voltaire, "the wittiest, most irreverent, most spectacular philosopher who ever lived," and Rousseau, "the poor, half-educated lad of Geneva who became the most radical, most talked-of philosopher (after Voltaire) of Europe." Endore, a successful screenwriter and novelist, was also a political activist and pamphlet...
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The Ordeal of Running Standing

By: Fall, Thomas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The McCall Publishing Company: (c.1970)

Seller ID: 24371

ISBN: 0841500479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[slight bump/crack to upper front corner, otherwise a clean tight book with no significant wear; jacket shows some uneven fading to both front and rear panels (not too pronounced), small tear at upper right corner of front panel]. Novel set in Oklahoma in the early 1900s, about a Kiowa Indian who passes for white: "he becomes Joe Standing and cynically joins the conniving whites -- hoping to beat them at their own game."
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King Windom

By: Farris, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Trident Press: 1967

Seller ID: 4278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good solid copy, minor edge-soiling; jacket shows a little wear at edges/corners, a couple of tiny tears at top front panel]. Ambitious novel about a fundamentalist Southern preacher who uses the power of radio to become the head of a nationwide revivalist movement.
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The Pledge [SIGNED]

By: Fast, Howard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1988

Seller ID: 13134

ISBN: 0-395-48308-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

(price-clipped) [nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows just a trace of surface wear to rear panel]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep (signature only). Novel about a veteran foreign correspondent who is "plunged into the McCarthy madness, stripped of his career, abandoned by friends and colleagues, and railroaded into jail by a congressional committee." Any resemblance to the author's own life is not coincidental. (++) Signed by Author
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The Shallow Man

By: Felske, Coerte V.W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers Inc.: (c.1995)

Seller ID: 14046

ISBN: 0-517-70035-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean copy with only minor shelfwear at base of spine; jacket a bit scuffed but still quite presentable]. The story of Nick Laws, hand model and party promoter. "Nick's world is a social network run by Thing, his generic name for gorgeous fashion models and other beautiful women. ... an elusive but fascinating arena populated by Bookers, Dromes, Donuts, Civilians, Snappers, 4B Girls, Guy, and, of course, Thing -- a world of fast-food romance, delicious sex, vicious grunge rock, and mind-boggling glamour. ... Welcome to Generation Face." (I believe this was slated to becom...
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The Shallow Man [SIGNED]

By: Felske, Coerte V.W.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers Inc.: (c.1995)

Seller ID: 15548

ISBN: 0-517-70035-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy with just the slightest bit of wear at base of spine; jacket shows faint surface wear, very minor wrinkling along top edge]. INSCRIBED humorously and rather extravagantly (covering the whole page) and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. The story of Nick Laws, hand model and party promoter. "Nick's world is a social network run by Thing, his generic name for gorgeous fashion models and other beautiful women. ... an elusive but fascinating arena populated by Bookers, Dromes, Donuts, Civilians, Snappers, 4B Girls, Guy, and, of course, Thing -- a world of fas...
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The Summer of Jack London [SIGNED]

By: Fenady, Andrew J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Walker and Company: 1985

Seller ID: 22951

ISBN: 0802740405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice-looking copy, with some very light dampstaining (visible only on the inside bottom edge of the jacket), light tanning to edges of text block, one tiny spot on lower fore-edge]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the dedication page, beneath the printed dedicatees: "and for / ________ / Long time friend to / Jack London / and / A.J. Fenady / Feb 22 - 85." "Fascinated by the life of Jack London, veteran Hollywood writer A.J. Fenady recreates in fiction one pivotal summer in the life of America's beloved novelist, who, though he died at thirty-nine, will live on forever in [...
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The Collector Collector [SIGNED]

By: Fischer, Tibor

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company: 1997

Seller ID: 17404

ISBN: 0-8050-5118-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover, very slight bump to bottom front corner, still a nice-looking copy, tight and clean; jacket has the tiniest nick to match the dent, faint soiling]. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. In this novel, the author "turns a conventional boy-meets-girl story into a brilliant comic romp. The hero of Fischer's tale is a bowl that comes into the possession of a young, lovelorn London art appraiser named Rosa. Rosa's bowl is no ordinary piece of clay, however: it is a ceramic sage, an urn of uncommon erudition that has witnessed all of history's...
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The Twenty-Seventh City [SIGNED]

By: Franzen, Jonathan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 1988

Seller ID: 22947

ISBN: 0374279721

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[very light shelfwear, a trace of soiling to edges of text block and a teeny-tiny dampstain on the bottom edge (keep reading); jacket appears unblemished from the exterior, but there is a large black stain on the inside, apparently the result of the jacket having been slightly damp at some point, just enough for some of the black from the cloth binding to have transferred to it; however, the only visible sign of any of this is the aforementioned teeny-tiny dampstain on the bottom edge of the text block, and if you never take the jacket off the book, you'll never notice any of this]. SIGNED by...
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Cold Mountain ["Uncorrected Manuscript" (advance proof), "ver 97.1.14"]

By: Frazier, Charles

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 1997

Seller ID: 17506

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

(printed glossy wraps) [a very nice copy, with just a touch of wear at the right-hand and bottom edges of the front cover, faint scuffing to front cover, tiny bends to bottom corners of two pages mid-book]. Uncorrected Advance Proof (labeled "Uncorrected Manuscript" on front cover, "ver 97.1.14" on title page) of the author's debut novel, which went on to win the American Book Award and subsequently to serve as the basis for a respectable but imperfect 2003 film adaptation written and directed by Anthony Minghella, with a Brit and an Aussie (Jude Law and Nicole Kidman) doing t...
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Cold Mountain

By: Frazier, Charles

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: (c.1997)

Seller ID: 18479

ISBN: 0-87113-679-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[minor shelfwear to cloth at base of spine, otherwise a nice clean book; jacket just a bit rubbed, John Behrendt endorsement/blurb sticker NOT present (see notes)]. National Book Award-winning Civil War novel, basis for the 2003 movie of the same name, for which Renée Zellweger hauled in a Supporting Actress Oscar. This is the true first edition (stated)/first printing (full number line), with all called-for points (including "man-woman" misprint on page 25, line 16). NOTE that the circular label bearing the laudatory quote from John Berendt is not present on the front jacket panel...
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144 Piccadilly

By: Fuller, Samuel

Price: $85.00

Publisher: [London], New English Library: 1971 (c.1971)

Seller ID: 17978

ISBN: 0-450-01314-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[slight age-toning to page edges, but no significant wear; jacket spine lightly soiled, slight scrunching at spine ends]. Novel about a group of London hippies who barricade themselves inside a decaying Mayfair mansion and resist all efforts to evict them. The much more common American edition rather obscures what the photographic dust jacket of this U.K. printing makes explicit, which is that this was based directly on an actual event -- "ripped from the headlines," as Fuller might have put it. In September of 1969 a radical group known as The London Street Commune, formed to highli...
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Nickel Mountain

By: Gardner, John

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1973

Seller ID: 18248

ISBN: 0-394-48883-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, no discernible wear to book at all; jacket just a bit faded at spine, a few tiny rubbed spots at a couple of corners]. (sepia-tone etchings) Gardner's sixth novel, an unconventional love story set in a small community in the Catskills in the 1950s, about a 42-year-old man who marries a 17-year-old girl who's pregnant with the child of a local boy.
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The Heyday

By: Gascoigne, Bamber

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1974 (c.1973)

Seller ID: 20431

ISBN: 0-670-36954-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[light foxing to top of text block, slight fading to top edges of boards, no other significant wear; jacket has a few itsy-bitsy closed tears along top and bottom edges, minor surface-scraping surrounding base of spine]. Novel set in Edwardian England, about "an aspiring ingenue who in the summer of 1905 rushes happily into a third-rate repertory troupe that slogs peripatetically through the provinces under the magisterial eye of a thoroughly unreluctant dragoness named Mrs. Bandmann-Palmer (who, incidentally, has played the lead in Hamlet on a record four hundred Saturday nights)."
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Night People

By: Gifford, Barry

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1992

Seller ID: 15352

ISBN: 0-8021-1538-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, tight/clean/unread, no discernible wear; jacket a tiny bit rubbed on the rear panel]. Four related novellas comprising a "road map of the American nightmare." The book "reaches even deeper into the vision of our world that Barry Gifford has painted in his earlier novels, and its pure light is often shocking. Yet no matter how odd, innocent, evil, or downright unearthly his characters are, Gifford dives into their souls, finds the truth of their lives, and delivers it to us with the energy and economy of a Picasso ink drawing." (All right, fine, but are we a...
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An Unfortunate Woman

By: Gifford, Barry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Donald S. Ellis / Creative Arts Book Company: 1984

Seller ID: 16895

ISBN: 0-916870-73-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[previous owner's signature at upper corner of front pastedown, otherwise a tight copy with no discernible wear; jacket has just the teensiest bit of wear at a couple of corners]. A woman in her late fifties, finding in difficult circumstances after a lifetime of misfortunes, recalls "her fabulous -- and not so fabulous -- glamorous life with 'the boys,' the big shot racketeers of 1940's Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Jamaica, Cuba and Florida [including' Ben [Bugsy] Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Johnny Reata and others." Errol Flynn pops up as a character, too.
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Modern Love

By: Glass, Leslie

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1983)

Seller ID: 16349

ISBN: 0-312-54090-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[minor wear at extremities, very minor scrunching to a few top page corners, bookplate on ffep; jacket lightly edgeworn, tiny tears at upper corners, light dampstain along right-hand edge of front panel, minor diagonal creasing at bottom corner of rear flap]. "Breaking up and falling in love again gets even harder when you're past thirty. [The author] writes of lovers, parents, marriage, divorce, and children; all the longing, heartache, and joy of modern love are here in this wry and sensitive romantic novel for grown-ups."
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The Castrato

By: Goldman, Lawrence Louis

Price: $30.00

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

Seller ID: 23690

ISBN: 0381982327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[spine very slightly turned, minor shelfwear to bottom edge, one-time owner's signature at top of ffep; jacket shows just light surface wear, thin black smudge across lower edge of spine]. "Set against the dazzling courts of Madrid and Vienna, the glamorous opera houses of London, Paris, and Rome, [this novel] is the story of Carlo Broschi, detta Farinelli, who actually was the most celebrated musical figure of his time. A male soprano with a bell-like voice which captivated men and women alike, Farinelli began life as a simple Italian peasant. The cruel mutilation which enabled him to ...
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Sisters

By: Goodwin, Suzanne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1984)

Seller ID: 12702

ISBN: 0-312-72748-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket shows minor wear at a couple of corners, small closed tear at bottom front hinge]. "A novel of love and war in the classic tradition, [this book] is a brilliant and penetrating work set in England during the Second World War. Americans, New Zealanders, Free French -- they were all attracted to the Tyrrell girls. Ostensibly free spirits, the three sisters longed for an end to the miseries of wartime; for a day when there would be no rationing and no blackouts, no terrifying nights huddled under the table -- no agonized waiting fo...
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Benjamin grabbed his Glicken and ran: an autobiography

By: Gordon, Fred

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1971)

Seller ID: 11761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[solid copy, light soiling to covers and page edges, black remainder stripe on top edge; jacket shows light surface/edge wear, very minor chipping at spine ends, some creasing to both flaps]. "This first novel introduces a young writer whose imagination offers a unique literary and visceral experience," and purports to be the autobiography of one "Benjamin Hackett -- frightening, fascinating, dangerous, lovable, a twenty-three-year-old living on the edge of madness -- [who] tries to explore the most remote corners of his mind." His instrument is his notebooks, in which he ...
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit