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By: Ladew, Donald P.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8598
[nice tight clean copy, mild wear at base of spine but appears unread; jacket has some very minor wrinkling and one tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. "An inspirational story of young love and the transforming power of music -- a novel that will engage and delight everyone who believes that wonderful things can happen to good people. On the Korean peninsula during the freezing winter of 1951, a wounded American soldier finds a rare violin hidden in the wall o... View more info
By: Lasdun, James
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 2002
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 14294
[slight bump to top front corner, otherwise tight, clean, as new; jacket is flawless]. First novel by this much-honored poet and short-story writer. It "opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in the world. As Lawrence Miller, an English expatriate and a professor of gender studies, tells the story of what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy to frame him for a series of brutal killings, w... View more info
![Image for Arkansas: Three Novellas [The Term Paper Artist; The Wooden Anniversary; Saturn Street] [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/11733.jpg "Arkansas: Three Novellas [The Term Paper Artist; The Wooden Anniversary; Saturn Street] [*SIGNED*]")
By: Leavitt, David
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 11733
[nice tight copy, no discernible wear, appears unread, tiny smudge at top of half-title page; rear panel of jacket shows some scuffing and surface-scratching, otherwise quite presentable]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Signed by Author View more info
By: Leavitt, David
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Viking: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16090
[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 o... View more info
By: Lehane, Dennis
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow: (c.2001)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17891
[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. View more info
![Image for Amnesia Moon [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/17882.jpg "Amnesia Moon [*SIGNED*]")
By: Lethem, Jonathan
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company: (c.1995)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17882
[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." View more info
By: Lieber, Joel
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, David McKay Company Inc.: (c.1968)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2681
[book worn along bottom edge, corners bumped, numerous passages marked in pencil (erasable) throughout; jacket worn at corners/edges]. Moving as nightmare. Basis for the 1970 Elliott Gould film of the same name. View more info
By: Lileks, James
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: (c.1988)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8708
[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 -... View more info
![Image for Forgiving [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/9854.jpg "Forgiving [*SIGNED*]")
By: List, Shelley
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: (c.1982)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9854
[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 who... View more info
![Image for She Walks in Beauty [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/22447.jpg "She Walks in Beauty [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, Arbor House: (c.1970)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22447
[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 executi... View more info
By: Loomis, Edward
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13403
[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 ... View more info
By: Loomis, Edward
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7525
[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 ... View more info
By: Maddox, Muriel
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Santa Fe NM, Sunstone Press: (c.2000)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17137
[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 e... View more info
By: Maloff, Saul
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: (c.1968)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9996
[boards slightly bowed, minor shelfwear/soiling to bottom edge; jacket has a couple of small tears and some wrinkling at base of spine, a little dog-earing at top of spine, minor soiling]. Review copy (with publisher's slip and press release laid in) of this author's first novel, about "a man of intelligence, uncertainty and goodwill, who returns to New York City in search of his seventeen-year-old daughter, only to discover that she has disappeared." View more info
By: Mann, Patrick (pseud. for Leslie Waller)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: (c.1974)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12852
[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 tur... View more info
![Image for A Question of Love [original title: Either/Or]](/assets/images/product/17129.jpg "A Question of Love [original title: Either/Or]")
By: March, Hilary
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1966)
Edition: 1st (U.S.) edition
Seller ID: 17129
[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, min... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co. , Inc.: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10026
[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 d... View more info
![Image for Citizens of Eden [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/1979.jpg "Citizens of Eden [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Glendora CA, Keelco Publishers: (c.1980)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 1979
[spine slightly turned; jacket rubbed, edgeworn, tiny nicks at spine extremities]. Novel about a prison experiment, in which a wealthy sociologist, " convinced he has the answer to America's correctional problems," embarks on Project Eden, a four-year, four-phase criminal rehabilitation program for which he recruits twelve convicted felons. Trouble ensues. (This is number 20 of a limited edition of 500 copies, and is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author.) Signed b... View more info
By: Maso, Carole
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Normal IL, Dalkey Archive Press: (c.1993)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14285
[book is tight and clean, as new with no significant wear; jacket shows the tiniest trace of surface handling wear, if you're the picky type]. A somewhat "experimental" novel (if people still use such a term), a kind of tour-of-consciousness through a dying woman's mind. Aside from husbands and lovers, the voices of her "literary loves" (Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, and others) are heard as well, along with "the voi... View more info
By: Matthews, Jack
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: (c.1973)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2981
[trace of shelfwear, "7-73" in blue ink on ffep; jacket rubbed, a bit of wear at spine extremities]. "...the intense story of a long trip from Wichita to eastern Colorado," as a rodeo veteran attempts to reunite a long-estranged mothe and daughter; the story also involves a young filmmaker, whose "cinematic visions of the experience [are blended] into the straight narrative." View more info
