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Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc.: (c.1986)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20112
ISBN: 0-688-06501-5
Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj
[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket similarly nice but for a surface-scrape mark at top of spine and some extremely minor edgewear]. "The adventures of Carl Hausman, a dreamy, dissatisfied young man who, while watching a baseball game one hot August afternoon, chases a foul ball into a thicket and discovered an opening into the underworld. Morpheus, the genial master of that realm, takes Carl on an epic tour that includes the lost kingdom of Atlantis, a library containing the conclusions of all the books that were never finished as well as all the books mentioned i... View more info
By: Mills, Hugh
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1966 (c.1965)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7180
ISBN: NO
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. View more info
By: Mirsky, Mark
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10004
ISBN: NO
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." View more info
By: Mo, Timothy
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, Paddleless Press: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17659
ISBN: 0-9524193-0-0
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." View more info
By: Mossman, Dow
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble Books: 2003 (c.1972)
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 13132
ISBN: 0-7607-4884-5
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. View more info
By: Munson, Douglas Anne [aka Mercedes Lambert]
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Viking: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15478
ISBN: 0-670-83134-4
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... View more info
By: Nason, Tema
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7986
ISBN: 0-385-30168-5
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?" View more info
![Image for Unexpected Pleasures [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15327.jpg)
By: Naylor, Phyllis
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1986)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15327
ISBN: 0-399-13198-1
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... View more info
By: Neider, Charles
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2585
ISBN: 0140134042
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. View more info
By: Neider, Charles
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Horizon Press: 1964 (c.1962)
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 3097
ISBN: 1125155418
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. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15831
ISBN: 0-395-13948-1
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. View more info
By: Nelson, Indiana
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1979)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5096
ISBN: 0-312-82052-6
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... View more info
By: Ney, John
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.: (c.1962)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3824
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... View more info
By: Nicholson, Geoff
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Woodstock NY, The Overlook Press: 1994
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 13437
ISBN: 0-87951-559-7
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... View more info
By: Nicholson, Geoff
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18414
ISBN: 0-575-05805-6
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." View more info
![Image for July, July [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/17512.jpg)
By: O'Brien, Tim
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17512
ISBN: 0-618-03969-4
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
[lovely copy, in perfect as-new condition]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "Ten old friends join their classmates for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, regretting." The background is a 30th-anniversary reunion of the Class of 1969 at a Minnesota college. Signed by Author View more info
By: Oliver, Mark (pseud. for Michael Tyler-Whittle)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: (c.1961)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8863
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[solid copy, minor soiling to top edge, tiny nick in cloth at top of spine; jacket moderately worn at edges/extremities, a couple of tiny tears/chips along top edge of rear panel, short closed tear at top right-hand corner of front panel]. "The story of an angry young man who takes action and refuses to despair. Virtually abandoned at an early age by his father, reared by his uncle, a university professor, who compassionately tell's Luke's story, Luke fought the world for love. At school, at the university, he questioned the values held up to him, rebelling against and yet silently submi... View more info
![Image for Clara's Heart [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15294.jpg)
By: Olshan, Joseph
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Arbor House: (c.1985)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15294
ISBN: 0-87795-744-4
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[a decent solid copy, light bumping to all corners, minor shelfwear; jacket shows some wear at edges and corners, minor wrinkling along top of front panel]. INSCRIBED ("For ______________ / With Warmest / Wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, additionally dated 23 June 1986 in his hand. The author's first novel, about the loving relationship between a black Jamaican woman and the young boy for whom she cares. Basis for a well-regarded 1988 film adaptation starring Whoopi Goldberg and (in his film debut) Neil Patrick Harris. Signed by Author View more info
![Image for The Waterline [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15293.jpg)
By: Olshan, Joseph
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15293
ISBN: 0-385-26505-0
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
[very nice copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. INSCRIBED warmly to friends and SIGNED by the author on the title page, additionally dated October 1989 in his hand; also laid in are two postcards promoting the book-signing event. Novel about the aftermath of the drowning of a seven-year-old boy, told in the voices of the members of the family that it most deeply affected. Signed by Author View more info
By: Ort, Daniel
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Mason/Charter: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 11720
ISBN: 0884051048
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
[good solid copy, light shelfwear, a couple of slightly bent bottom page corners; jacket shows a little wear at edges and top corners; review copy, with publisher's slip laid in]. The author's first novel, a comic tale (apparently) about a 35-year-old teacher/husband/father (with five kids and sixth on the way), who finds himself "bored with the homeowner routine of fixing leaky faucets in a house he hates. And so, with his equally fed up friend David, he masterminds a weekend plan to leave everyday reality behind. Leaving their credit cards at home, taking little cash, the two set off ... View more info
