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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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July, July [SIGNED]

By: O'Brien, Tim

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 2002

Seller ID: 17512

ISBN: 0-618-03969-4

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Luke Benedict

By: Oliver, Mark (pseud. for Michael Tyler-Whittle)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: (c.1961)

Seller ID: 8863

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Clara's Heart [SIGNED]

By: Olshan, Joseph

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Arbor House: (c.1985)

Seller ID: 15294

ISBN: 0-87795-744-4

Binding: Hardcover

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
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The Waterline [SIGNED]

By: Olshan, Joseph

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1989

Seller ID: 15293

ISBN: 0-385-26505-0

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Off to See the Wizard

By: Ort, Daniel

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Mason/Charter: 1975

Seller ID: 11720

ISBN: 0884051048

Binding: Hardcover

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 ...
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The Man Who Owned New York [SIGNED]

By: Osborn, John Jay Jr.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1981

Seller ID: 24600

ISBN: 039530511X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very slight bumping to bottom corners, small bit of foxing to top of text block; jacket shows a little wear at extremities, a couple of tiny nicks and minor paper loss at top of spine, two closed tears at lower edge of rear panel, one-inch split at top front flap foldover]. INSCRIBED affectionately to friends and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. The concluding book in Osborn's unofficial trilogy about the world of American law, which began in 1971 with "The Paper Chase" (which became a movie and a TV series) and continued in 1979 with "The Associates" (which becam...
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There Goes Davey Cohen

By: Owen, Wendy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann: 1966

Seller ID: 7959

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate dust-soiling to fore-edge and top-edge, a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket scuffed, edgeworn, moderately soiled, tiny tears at corners of rear panel]. The author's first novel, examining "the complex texture of a marriage." Set in a picturesque Spanish resort town; jacket blurbers include Anais Nin and Anthony Burgess.
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Serpent's Delight

By: Park, Ruth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962

Seller ID: 7780

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[spine turned, some wear at spine extremities, top front corner lightly bumped, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket edgeworn, a few tiny chips/tears, mild browning at edges, minor paper loss at top of spine and at top rear corner]. "When Geraldine, youngest of the good-looking Pond sisters, announces she has had a vision of the Blessed Virgin, her entire family is suddenly shot from its mundane middle-class existence into the glare of publicity." (A stated "First Edition in the United States of America," yet with no printed price on dust jacket, therefore a possib...
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Wilderness [uncorrected proof]

By: Parker, Robert B.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence: (c.1979)

Seller ID: 15640

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

(printed wraps) [nice clean copy, very light handling wear, trace of browning to spine]. Uncorrected proof copy of Parker's first non-Spenser book, a suspense novel about a writer whose life is threatened after he witnesses a murder and agrees to testify against the accused killer, a professional mobster.
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The Beauty Queen

By: Pfeffer, Susan Beth

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: (c.1974)

Seller ID: 24149

ISBN: 0385022565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to book at all; jacket shows only a bit of soiling]. An early work by this prolific young-adult fiction writer, probably best known for her science-fiction books. This one tells the story of a recent high-school graduate with ambitions to become a professional actress, but who is nagged by her mother to enter a local beauty contest -- which, "to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins," and then begins to become increasingly sucked into that world. This is a review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in (on which the author's middle name ...
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Face [SIGNED]

By: Pineda, Cecile

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1985

Seller ID: 5254

ISBN: 0-670-80330-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice and tight, minimal wear to bottom edge, previous owner's name on ffep; jacket rubbed, one tiny closed tear at top of front panel, a couple of vertical creases in rear flap]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half- title page. Signed by Author
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Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel

By: Pollack, Neal

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: (c.2003)

Seller ID: 18708

ISBN: 0-06-052790-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice-looking copy, just a touch of wear to bottom edge of book; another touch of wear to the jacket]. "A rock novel that really rocks," by the (jacket-blurb-proclaimed) "greatest novelist of his generation." An over-the-top satirical novel, "a raw, protean yawp from the depths of nowhere, a hilarious trip through time that savagely parodies the history of rock and roll and its grandiloquent journalism." The novel's narrator is a fictional rock journalist who is called upon to tell the posthumous story of a fictional "Neal Pollack," a rock critic who seems li...
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The Jaws That Bite

By: Pollice, Anthony

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: (c.1970)

Seller ID: 24369

ISBN: 0135097452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [minimal shelfwear, agency stamps (H.N. Swanson, Inc.) on ffep and half-title page, small pieces of clear tape on both pastedowns and at edges of both jacket flaps (from where jacket was formerly affixed to pastedowns); the jacket itself is just lightly soiled]. "A fast-paced, amusing, and lyrical narrative about the life in crisis of Saul Bannerman, middle-aged merchandising director of Beauty*Pore Cosmetic Co. Solly has all the material accoutrements of a reasonably successful man in our culture: a wife, a good job, a home in an upper-class suburb. Then out of nowhere ...
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit