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While England Sleeps

By: Leavitt, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1993

Seller ID: 16090

ISBN: 0-670-83349-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, with no discernible wear; jacket shows only the faintest handling wear]. Leavitt's novel of a homosexual love affair, set against the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s, and in particular the Spanish Civil War. The author borrowed a bit too liberally from poet Stephen Spender's 1951 memoir "World Within World"; Spender filed a plagiarism suit in England, which ultimately led to the preparation of issuance of a revised version. It's often stated that the original version was "suppressed," which is a considerable exaggeration. In fact, Viking recall...
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Mystic River

By: Lehane, Dennis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow: (c.2001)

Seller ID: 17891

ISBN: 0-688-16316-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[solid clean copy, very light shelfwear; jacket a tiny bit scuffed]. The author's breakthrough novel, at least in a culture where "breakthrough" = "somebody makes a big successful movie out of it," as Clint Eastwood did with this one.
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Amnesia Moon [SIGNED]

By: Lethem, Jonathan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company: (c.1995)

Seller ID: 17882

ISBN: 0-15-100091-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj

[nice clean copy, the slightest hint of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket is flawless]. SIGNED boldly by the author on the title page. The author's second novel, "The Wizard of Oz remade as road noir," in which a character named Chaos sets off down the road in an (apparently) post-apocalyptic Wyoming, in "pursuit of a missing identity and a stolen love."
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Falling Up the Stairs

By: Lileks, James

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: (c.1988)

Seller ID: 8708

ISBN: 0-525-24655-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, very minor soiling to page edges, NO remainder mark; jacket rubbed/scuffed, some surface-scratching]. The Minneapolis-based columnist/humorist's elusive first novel, about the " society" editor of a small-town Minnesota newspaper, whose wish for a simple life goes wildly awry, first when he inherits his great-aunt's house -- "the Minneapolis version of Mad King Ludwig's castle," complete with ancient servants and a freeloading cousin -- and then when he gets involved as the unwilling "media mouthpiece" for AIL, the Alimentary Instruction League, "...
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Forgiving [SIGNED]

By: List, Shelley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: (c.1982)

Seller ID: 9854

ISBN: 0-525-24132-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[nice copy, bottom corners bumped, light shelfwear, small smudge on bottom page edges; jacket a bit rubbed, minor wear at edges and corners]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep, with a long personal inscription to actress Marie Windsor (whose address label appears on the front pastedown), "with hopes that the message here - that we must forgive and come to terms with our demons - has meaning for you." The novel deals with a high-powered female photojournalist whose professional life consumes her: "Work is her reality, the rest of life something left aside, to be handled after the d...
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She Walks in Beauty [SIGNED]

By: Longstreet, Stephen

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Arbor House: (c.1970)

Seller ID: 22447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[light age-toning to edges of text block, a couple of tiny stains on fore-edge, tiny white spot on front board; jacket a little bit rubbed, with very minor wear at base of spine]. SIGNED by the author on the title page, beneath his lined-through printed name. The author "creates in this new novel the inner world of the cosmetics industry, as dramatized in the personal and public lives of two remarkable women, and the struggles within -- and between -- their executive suites."
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The Mothers

By: Loomis, Edward

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1962

Seller ID: 13403

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good solid copy, light shelfwear, bottom corners a bit bumped; jacket shows light soiling and minor surface wear, remnants of old price sticker at top of front flap]. "Dean Candell's educational opportunities, in matters of the heart, were unusual in the extreme. His two principal instructors, Ethel and Verna, pursued their task, sometimes willingly and sometimes not, under remarkably varied and changing circumstances. Beginning as high-school girls and continuing as wives and mothers, they managed between them to create the episodes of tragedy and comedy -- or so it seemed to Dean -- th...
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The Hunter Deep in Summer

By: Loomis, Edward

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1961

Seller ID: 7525

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear, slight wrinkling at top of first few pages, bookstore name stamp on ffep; ; jacket moderately edgeworn, front panel internally dampstained and mildly wrinkled, a couple of tiny and unobtrusive surface-peel spots on spine, two small closed tears at bottom of rear panel]. When two Native American boys are arrested and charged with murder in a small town on the California-Nevada border, a semi-retired trial lawyer from Los Angeles takes on their defense.
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Noela & That Man in Rio: Two Novellas

By: Maddox, Muriel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Santa Fe NM, Sunstone Press: (c.2000)

Seller ID: 17137

ISBN: 0-86534-309-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[bump to base of spine, otherwise a nice clean tight copy with no significant wear; jacket slightly wrinkled at base of spine (to match bump), very light scuffing to front panel]. Two "widely disparate" novellas. In "Noela," an American lawyer vacationing in Switzerland with his wife finds himself near the village where his plane was shot down during World War II (an experience during which he was hidden by a French family, had a brief affair with the eponymous woman, was helped to escape by a priest, and promised to return but didn't); visiting the village while his wife is ...
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Dog Day Afternoon

By: Mann, Patrick (pseud. for Leslie Waller)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: (c.1974)

Seller ID: 12852

ISBN: 0-440-04399-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good solid copy, minor wear to bottom edge, faint soiling to page edges; jacket shows minor edgewear, spine sunned, light soiling, one tiny tear at bottom rear hinge]. Not really the "source novel" for the movie of the same name, but a sort of novelization (which actually appeared a year before the movie) -- perhaps, more accurately, a kind of alternate telling, "based in part on material created by Frank R. Pierson" (the film's screenwriter, who in turned based his work on an article about an actual bank robbery-cum-media event.
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A Question of Love [original title: Either/Or]

By: March, Hilary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1966)

Seller ID: 17129

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy, very slight indentation in bottom page edges (affecting about 3 pages); jacket lightly soiled/rubbed, one small closed tear at top edge of rear panel]. Who was "Hilary March"? This is apparently her only published book (unless she wrote a 1927 novel called "Wet Weather"), and when anyone writes a single novel which focuses rather intensely on the personal psychodrama of a protagonist of the same gender, a reader's speculations (OK, mine) inevitably trend to the autobiographical. Add to that a complete absence of any biographical cover blurb (at least in thi...
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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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Cooling Off

By: McCool, J.M.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: (c.1984)

Seller ID: 4313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[very slight dust-soiling on top edge; jacket shows a bit of wear along top/bottom edges, one tiny nick at top of rear panel]. The author's first novel, a Mississippi-set tale about "a young woman [who] is frozen for five days in a compartment cooled to ten degrees below zero," as a promotional stunt for a car dealership. "A macabre, funny, and page-turning tale in the finest southern tradition." (Sounds like it might be a good companion piece to Harry Crews's "Car.")
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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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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit