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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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Unexpected Pleasures [SIGNED]

By: Naylor, Phyllis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1986)

Seller ID: 15327

ISBN: 0-399-13198-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[moderate shelfwear to book, light fading to boards at top and bottom edges, browning and light soiling to page edges; jacket torn at spine corners, dog-eared at spine ends, worn along top edge, one small closed tear at top of rear panel, short diagonal crease at top of front flap]. INSCRIBED to TV producer/writer Joanna Lee and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. A "profoundly touching love story between a thirty-two-year-old bridgeworker and a sixteen-year-old refugee from a mobile home, a drunken father and two trollopy older sisters"; set against a backwater of blue-collar tidewater...
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A Visit to Yazoo

By: Neider, Charles

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1991

Seller ID: 2585

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Near Fine [just a trace of handling wear]. (Contemporary American Fiction) Series Trade PB A rich and ruthless banker, on his way to Florida, finds himself stranded by car trouble in a small backwoods Maryland town. "A dark, disturbing portrait of one man's fated collision with the very thing he craves-- control." A paperback original.
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Naked Eye

By: Neider, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Horizon Press: 1964 (c.1962)

Seller ID: 3097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[moderate wear, top edge dusty, agency stamp (H. N. Swanson) on ffep, tape marks on pastedowns & endpapers from formerly taped-down jacket; jacket edgeworn, faint water-stain near base of spine]. Novel about "the loves of a famous photographer"; blurbs on the front panel by Aldous Huxley, Mark Schorer and Max Eastman.
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The Last Station

By: Nelson, Bobby Jack

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1972

Seller ID: 15831

ISBN: 0-395-13948-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, minor shelfwear, agency label on ffep; jacket has a couple of tiny scrapes near top of front panel, minor soiling to rear panel]. First novel by this New Mexico-born author, "a memorable tale of a harsh life in a far country -- the story of an American named Bob who finds himself on a drought-ridden cattle station, 300 miles from the nearest town, in the burning waste of the great Australian outback, the world's last frontier." The author had spent some time there himself, according to his jacket bio.
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Truckstop

By: Nelson, Indiana

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1979)

Seller ID: 5096

ISBN: 0-312-82052-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[mild wear to bottom of book, top rear corner ever-so-slightly bumped; jacket has some wear at corners, and a 2" closed tear and associated wrinkling at the top of the front panel]. Novel centered in a small Arizona town, and populated by truckers, waitresses, and other denizens of the American road. Laid in to this copy is a brief story analyst's report from Walt Disney Productions; the reader allows as how the book "is both sensitive and well-written," but concludes that it's " overall tone is depressingly downbeat, and since it has no strong central story, I can't see anythi...
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Whitey McAlpine; a tale of ambition

By: Ney, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.: (c.1962)

Seller ID: 3824

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[moderate overall wear, some edge-soiling, blue mark on ffep; jacket chipped/edgeworn, bottom 1/2" of spine missing, original price marked over on front flap]. "A startling novel of men and women who strike a shrewd balance between moral bankruptcy and life on the gold standard. For the relatively large number of people who have never manipulated lives, indulged in sleight-of-hand with signed proxies, concocted unsavoury deals with relish, or committed sane relatives to mental institutions--but would like to know how the rich and ruthless do it--[this book] gives an engrossing opportu...
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Hunters & Gatherers

By: Nicholson, Geoff

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Woodstock NY, The Overlook Press: 1994

Seller ID: 13437

ISBN: 0-87951-559-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, appears unread, no discernible wear, NO remainder or other marks; jacket shows faint surface wear]. An author sets out to write a "mildly facetious study of that venerable institution, the English eccentric," but gets a lot more than he bargained for. His research "introduces him to a Felliniesque cast of characters, including an alluring woman named Victoria who collects lovers who collect cars," and eventually he himself becomes an obsessive collector, "eating, sleeping and breathing the works" of his primary quarry, reclusive novelist Thornt...
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Everything and More

By: Nicholson, Geoff

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1994

Seller ID: 18414

ISBN: 0-575-05805-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very slight bumping to bottom corners and top of spine, agency label on ffep; jacket shows some surface wear, minor wrinkling along top and bottom edges, slight scrunching with one itsy-bitsy tear at base of spine]. "The very first Shopping and Terrorism novel," this book tells the story of what happens day and night in Haden Brothers, a vast West End department store that sells everything, and is "built along the lines of the Tower of Babel."
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit