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The Road to Leenane

By: du Maurier, Angela

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century: (c.1963)

Seller ID: 10800

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[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.
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The House of McCord [SIGNED]

By: Duncan, Martha E.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/Ardmore PA, Dorrance & Company: (c.1978)

Seller ID: 20895

ISBN: 0-8059-2545-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[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 McCord's wife," apparently straight out the hospital. (What kind of arrangement was that, I wonder?) Anyway, the portraits...
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The Crazy Ladies

By: Elbert, Joyce

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The New American Library: 1969

Seller ID: 20668

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dj

[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 of sex, despite "her stubborn orgasm problem"; a 29-year-old divorcee who's "starting to drink too much" due...
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A Bad Man

By: Elkin, Stanley

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1967)

Seller ID: 3334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[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].
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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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Grendel

By: Gardner, John

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1971

Seller ID: 20304

ISBN: 0-394-47143-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dj

(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."
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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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The Lowest Trees Have Tops

By: Gellhorn, Martha

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1969 (c.1967)

Seller ID: 16441

ISBN: 0396058647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(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 as "dwellers." Among the former group are "three midwestern families who arrived seeking refuge from a stateside...
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit