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![Image for Faulty Ground [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/3695.jpg "Faulty Ground [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd.: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 3695
[slight yellowing of pages at top edge and fore-edge]. SIGNED by the author on the title page. "Susan Barnes, resilient, reserved and so terribly British, decides to take an extended trip to visit her cousin, Joanna, in Los Angeles...[the novel] explores the paradoxes of Californian life." Signed by Author View more info
By: Dorey, John
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19242
[no significant shelfwear, spine slightly turned, minor dust-soiling to top edge; jacket shows a trace of wear at several corners, minor rubbing and surface-scratching to front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. Uncommon comic novel, set in Malta, featuring a Roman Catholic priest who suffers a crisis of conscience over his personal disagreement with the Church's policy on contraception, and as a result gets involved with the smuggling of birth control pills into the c... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century: (c.1963)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10800
[nice clean copy, very light fading to cloth at edges, no significant wear; jacket mildly worn at edges/corners, spine lightly sunned and with minor spotting, one small tear at top of front panel]. Novel "set amid the beautiful mountains and lakes of Ireland's Connemara," it's "the story of Micky Renvyle, a talented painter, and of the three women who loved him." The author was the sister of Daphne du Maurier. View more info
![Image for The House of McCord [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/20895.jpg "The House of McCord [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Philadelphia/Ardmore PA, Dorrance & Company: (c.1978)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 20895
[light shelfwear, slight rippling to a few pages, minor edge-scrunching to a few pages, small stain on fore-edge; jacket rubbed (mostly at edges), very slight chipping at top of spine, a bit of soiling to the rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel (the author's first and presumably only), beginning in Kentucky in the 1920s and progressing narratively into the present-day 1970s, about an amnesiac, Becky, who "begins her new life as Ken McC... View more info
By: Dunn, Katherine
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1971)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16404
[nice clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket has one tiny tear at bottom of rear panel, diagonal crease in rear flap]. A rebellious adolescent girl named Jean 'Dutch' Gillis goes 'trucking' from Portland, Oregon, to Los Angeles on a journey of self-discovery, which "is filled with chilling discoveries and sudden violence." View more info
By: Elbert, Joyce
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, The New American Library: 1969
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 20668
[nice tight clean book with no discernible wear; jacket has a browned strip along the top edge of both the front and rear panels, minor wrinkling at bottom of front panel]. The author's second novel, about "New York Now -- and the girls who live there. Why they live there. What they're doing there. The men they're doing it with." The "four attractive girls trying to make it in the toughest town in the world" are: a 24-year-old model whose having lots... View more info
By: Elkin, Stanley
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3334
[book clean and solid, minor ink markings on ffep; jacket has a slightly ragged 1-1/2" closed tear at upper right front panel, a copule of small tears & a little wrinkling at top of rear panel]. View more info
![Image for Voltaire! Voltaire! [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/20604.jpg "Voltaire! Voltaire! [*SIGNED*]")
By: Endore, Guy
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 20604
(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 ... View more info
By: Farris, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Trident Press: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4278
[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. View more info
![Image for The Pledge [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/13134.jpg "The Pledge [*SIGNED*]")
By: Fast, Howard
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 13134
(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 View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers Inc.: (c.1995)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14046
[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 s... View more info
![Image for The Shallow Man [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15548.jpg "The Shallow Man [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers Inc.: (c.1995)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15548
[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 fascin... View more info
![Image for The Collector Collector [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/17404.jpg "The Collector Collector [*SIGNED*]")
By: Fischer, Tibor
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17404
[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 ... View more info
![Image for Cold Mountain ["Uncorrected Manuscript" (advance proof), "ver 97.1.14"]](/assets/images/product/17506.jpg "Cold Mountain [\"Uncorrected Manuscript\" (advance proof), \"ver 97.1.14\"]")
By: Frazier, Charles
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 1997
Edition: Uncorrected Proof
Seller ID: 17506
(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 2... View more info
By: Frazier, Charles
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: (c.1997)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18479
[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, l... View more info
By: Fuller, Samuel
Price: $85.00
Publisher: [London], New English Library: 1971 (c.1971)
Edition: 1st U.K. edition
Seller ID: 17978
[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... View more info
By: Gardner, John
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18248
[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. View more info
By: Gardner, John
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20304
(price-clipped) [book itself has no discernible wear; jacket quite faded at spine (one of the chronic problems with this book), with a small black smudge at the upper left corner of the rear panel and a tiny razor-cut on the spine] "The first and most terrifying monster in English literature tells his own side (the true side) of the Beowulf story in this revisionist novel . . . comic, grotesque, at times very sad." View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1974 (c.1973)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 20431
[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 na... View more info
By: Gellhorn, Martha
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1969 (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16441
(price-clipped) [minor wear to bottom corners, otherwise a tight clean copy; jacket has a few tiny closed edge-tears, rubbing to rear panel, very slight browning to spine]. Novel set in a Mexican mountain village, about the relationships between "residents" (expatriate foreigners who "have come from near and far for the infinite variety of reasons that impel people to escape the dread advantages of civilization") and the native Mexican population, known ... View more info
