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Born Too Soon

By: Marion, Robert, M.D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co. , Inc.: 1985

Seller ID: 10026

ISBN: 0-385-19833-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, remainder spray on bottom edge but otherwise no significant wear; ditto the jacket, except for a few tiny and very unobtrusive edge-tears to the rear panel (if you can see 'em, you're looking too hard!)]. Novel (the author's first) about "an eager and idealistic young intern, about to bring his new skills and dreams of healing to Boston's famous St. Anne's Hospital, and to the most vulnerable of all patients: newborn babies -- some very sick, some dying, some not weighing more than a pound." The author himself was (surprise!) a pediatrician.
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Queen of the Ritz [SIGNED]

By: Marx, Samuel

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1978)

Seller ID: 22972

ISBN: 0491022069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light wear to book at spine extremities and a couple of corners; jacket shows some wear along right edge of front panel, moderate dog-earing at both ends of spine (see NOTE about the dust jacket)]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Bill -- / So go ahead, make / movies about the Algonquin! / Your friend, / Sam Marx." The long-time MGM story editor's biography of his aunt, "the moving, frequently funny, always fast-paced" biography of his aunt, Blanche Auzello, "who with her husband Claude ran the famous Ritz Hotel in Paris during the halcyon twenties and...
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The Last Supper

By: McCarry, Charles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton, Inc.: (c.1983)

Seller ID: 14266

ISBN: 0-525-24173-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[very light wear to book, slight browning to page edges; front of jacket shows minor creasing, rear panel has some surface scratching and a small scrunch at the bottom edge, jacket still very presentable]. One of this excellent author's most ambitious works, in which, "through the life of his central character, Paul Christopher, he traces the labyrinthine history of the secret American intelligence group known as the Outfit from its early buccaneering days in the war against the Nazis and the Japanese, through the shadowy years of the Cold War, and on to the bitterness and moral complexiti...
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Shelley's Heart

By: McCarry, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1995)

Seller ID: 12420

ISBN: 0-679-41533-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

(price-clipped) [very nice clean copy, no discernible wear, appears unread; aside from the price-clipping, jacket shows only light surface wear, mostly to rear panel]. "The first presidential election of the twenty-first century, bitterly contested by two men who are implacable political rivals but lifelong personal friends, is stolen. On the eve of the inauguration the losing candidate presents proof of the crime to his opponent, the incumbent President, and demands that he stand aside. The winner refuses and takes the oath of office, thereby setting in motion what may destroy him and ...
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Lucky Bastard

By: McCarry, Charles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1998)

Seller ID: 24795

ISBN: 067944761X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, virtually as-new with no discernibile wear to book; jacket shows just a touch of surface rubbing on the rear panel (NOTE that the jacket, by design, is about 1-1/2" shorter than the book itself)]. "The suspenseful and hilarious story of a gifted politician with dangerous friends and a zipper problem," who also "has good reason to believe he is the illegitimate son of JFK. His goal is the same as that of any Kennedy: to reclaim the presidency....and enjoy as many women as possible along the way." This highly-regarded author is an ex-CIA agent who has achi...
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Suspicion

By: McCrum, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Co.: 1997 (c.1996)

Seller ID: 25464

ISBN: 0393040461

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. Psychological thriller about two brothers -- the younger a bachelor who lives a quiet life in a small English village, the older an "expatriate Communist intellectual" who has moved to the village, with his new German wife, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Running Scared

By: McDonald, Gregory

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Ivan Obolensky, Inc.: (c.1964)

Seller ID: 17630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[moderate wear to extremities, previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket is a bit on the ratty side, with paper loss at top of spine, small chip at bottom left corner of front panel, small tears and bits of paper loss at most corners, rubbing/wrinkling/general wear]. The author's first novel, about "a 'perfect' young man -- brilliant, attractive, and a top athlete," who nonetheless permits his college roommate to commit suicide before his eyes, and who finds himself drawn to a girl who hates him.
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Hometown

By: Meaker, M.J. [aka Vin Packer]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 18222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[corners moderately bumped, slight soiling to bottom edge, generally a good solid copy; jacket a bit yellowed, small tear at upper right-hand corner of front panel, minor chipping at spine ends]. "This is the story of the First Family of an upstate New York town in the years from World War I through the aftermath of World War II." The author, herself a product of an upstate New York town, was better known as a mystery/suspense novelist under the pseudonym of "Vin Packer," and somewhat later as award-winning young adult fiction writer "M.E. Kerr." (She used a few other ...
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Confessions of a Homing Piegon [SIGNED]

By: Meyer, Nicholas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press: (c.1981)

Seller ID: 22023

ISBN: 0-385-27198-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[small light stain on top edge of text block, slight fading to edges of boards; jacket lightly rubbed, small v-shaped pull-tear on rear panel, vertical crease in rear flap]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To ___ & / ____ -- / with much love -- / Nick / Oct 1981." Novel about "the half-Italian, half-Irish, half-Catholic, half-Jewis child of dead circus acrobats," who first finds himself living Paris in the custody of an eccentric, boisterous, alcoholic uncle "who introduces his little nephew to the finer things -- sporting houses in Pigalle, jazz concert...
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The Death of David Debrizzi [SIGNED]

By: Micou, Paul

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Bantam Press: 1991

Seller ID: 17657

ISBN: 0-593-02362-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, the faintest bit of soiling to top page edges; jacket a little rubbed, minor curling along top edge]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel about a would-be biographer, "resting comfortably on the terrace of a Swiss sanatorium," who takes pen in hand to compose a rebuttal to the "criminally unfair biography" of his intended subject, a renowned French concert pianist, that has been published by another writer. "He weeds through its distortions and omissions, its exaggerations and personal attacks, and supplies the version of the truth that he had inte...
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The Misfits

By: Miller, Arthur

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1961

Seller ID: 19884

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[bumping to base of spine, otherwise a tight clean copy with no significant wear; jacket browned at edges and spine, as typical with the book club issue of this title, but otherwise quite nice with only slight wear]. (4 B&W film stills) Novelization (kinda) by Miller of his own screenplay, which itself had "evolved" from his short story of the same name (also included in this volume), first published in Esquire in 1957. The jacket copy dubs it a "cinema-novel," and in his "author's note," Miller describes it as being "in an unfamiliar form, neither novel, play or s...
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The Misfits

By: Miller, Arthur

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1961

Seller ID: 24679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[no significant wear to book, but some foxing/spotting to cloth covers; jacket lightly soiled, a couple of small tears and associated creasing at top edge of rear panel, a bit of insect-nibbling to bottom edge of rear flap]. Novelization (kinda) by Miller of his own screenplay, which itself had "evolved" from his short story of the same name, first published in Esquire in 1957. The jacket copy dubs it a "cinema-novel," and in his "author's note," Miller describes it as being "in an unfamiliar form, neither novel, play or screenplay," and states that his goal h...
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Portrait of a Romantic

By: Millhauser, Steven

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1977

Seller ID: 12046

ISBN: 0-394-41165-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[solid copy, bottom front corner bumped but otherwise clean and tight; jacket edgeworn, heavy rubbing/scuffing to front panel, sticker remnant on front panel, soiling to rear panel]. [NOTE that this is stated as a "First Edition" on the copyright page--but it's the book club issue, nonetheless.]
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In the Penny Arcade [SIGNED]

By: Millhauser, Steven

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1986

Seller ID: 16858

ISBN: 0-394-54660-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [book is bumped and lightly shelfworn at bottom edge; rear jacket panel shows a little scuffing/surface scratching]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. His third book, and first story collection. Signed by Author
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Prudence and the Pill

By: Mills, Hugh

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1966 (c.1965)

Seller ID: 7180

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[mild shelfwear, top corners lightly bumped; jacket shows some wear/rubbing along top/bottom edges and at corners, front panel a bit wrinkled]. "What happens when a successful, middle-aged banker and pillar of society named Gerald Hardcastle discovers that his wife possesses a supply birth control pills, even though their relationship has been platonic for fifteen years? Why, naturally, he switches the pills for aspirin tablets and waits to see what happens next." Basis for the not-overly-amusing 1968 film starring David Niven and Deborah Kerr.
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Thou Worm Jacob

By: Mirsky, Mark

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: (c.1967)

Seller ID: 10004

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, bottom rear corner very lightly bumped, minor soiling/browning to fore-edge; jacket nice and clean, minor surface wear]. The author's first novel, a comic story set in the Blue Hill Avenue district, "the disintegrating Jewish ghetto of Boston, a crumbling neighborhood next to Irish and Negro slums."
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Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard

By: Mo, Timothy

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Paddleless Press: 1995

Seller ID: 17659

ISBN: 0-9524193-0-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, very light wear to top page edges; jacket shows just a trace of surface wear]. "Set in Macau, the Philippines, Japan, and New York for as long as it take to drink a cup and a half of indifferent coffee, Timothy Mo's new novel can be read as a revenger's tragedy, a comedy of polyglot manners, or simply as the newest instalment in his candid commentary on the waxing and waning of the struggle between the ways of East and West."
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The Stones of Summer

By: Mossman, Dow

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble Books: 2003 (c.1972)

Seller ID: 13132

ISBN: 0-7607-4884-5

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, as-new, no discernible wear to book; jacket shows very light surface wear to rear panel, slight wear at bottom edge of rear panel]. Reissue of the once-obscure 1972 novel that had effectively vanished into cult-status before being rejuvenated by Mark Moskowitz's 2002 documentary film "Stone Reader," about his own discovery of the novel and his subsequent obsessive search for its author.
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El Niño

By: Munson, Douglas Anne [aka Mercedes Lambert]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1990

Seller ID: 15478

ISBN: 0-670-83134-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[lightly shelfworn copy, spine very slightly turned; jacket shows some wear along top and bottom edges, surface rubbing, top corners slightly dog-eared]. The author's first novel, about a 34-year-old L.A. lawyer, a court-appointed defense counsel for parents accused of child abuse, who is "struggling to overcome her own tragic past [while also] trying to untangle the difficult, delicate lives of her clients." (The author, who published two additional books under the name "Mercedes Lambert," passed away in 2003; a fair amount of the acclaim which eluded her during her rather tr...
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Ethel: The Fictional Autobiography; a novel of Ethel Rosenberg

By: Nason, Tema

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: 1990

Seller ID: 7986

ISBN: 0-385-30168-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean solid copy; jacket has slight wear at corners, spine ends, and along top edge of rear panel]. The premise of this novel: "What if Ethel Rosenberg, put to death in 1953 for conspiracy after being found guilty of passing atomic bomb secrets to the Russians, had kept a diary in prison during the last year of her life?"
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit